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Þórhallur Magnússon - Research Professor

Þórhallur Magnússon

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School of Humanities

Þórhallur Magnússon

Research Professor

Research Professor

Location
Veröld - Hús Vigdísar / VHV-222
Email
thormagnusson [at] hi.is

Unit
Institute of Philosophy
Website
https://thormagnusson.github.io

Curriculum Vitae
Þórhallur Magnússon - Curriculum Vitae
ORCID site
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3731-0630
Research portal – Þórhallur Magnússon

Published works

2023

Sculpting Algorithmic Pattern: Informal and Visuospatial Interaction in Musical Instrument DesignProceedings of the Sound and Music Computing Conferences
A in AIMCInternational Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Music Creativity
Design Process in Visual Programming: Methods for Visual and Temporal AnalysisProceedings of the Sound and Music Computing Conferences
Editorial: Live Coding Sonic CreativitiesOrganised Sound

2022

Embedded AI for NIME: Challenges and Opportunities
Autocoder: a Variational Autoencoder for Spectral SynthesisInternational Computer Music Conference, ICMC Proceedings
MusIAC: An Extensible Generative Framework for Music Infilling Applications with Multi-level Control
Reflexions upon Feedback
Live coding: a user's manual
The Proto-Langspil: Launching an Icelandic NIME Research Lab with the Help of a Marginalised Instrument

2021

Assessing the support for creativity of a playground for live coding machine learningLecture Notes in Computer Science
Curating experience: Composition as cultural technology – a conversationJournal of New Music Research
Designing the Threnoscope, or, How I Wrote One of My PiecesSound Work: Composition as Critical Technical Practice
Introduction to the special issue on socio-cultural role of technology in digital musical instrumentsJournal of New Music Research
The migration of musical instruments: On the socio-technological conditions of musical evolutionJournal of New Music Research

2020

Designing for a pluralist and user-friendly live code language ecosystem with SemaProceedings of the 2020 International Conference on Live Coding (ICLC2020)
Threnoscope
Digitizing the txalaparta: computer-based study of a traditional practiceComputer Music Journal
Erratum: Digital Musical Instruments as Probes: How Computation Changes the Mode-of-Being of Musical Instruments (Organised Sound (2020) 25: 1 (64-74) DOI: 10.1017/S1355771819000475)Organised Sound
A signal engine for a live coding language ecosystemAES: Journal of the Audio Engineering Society
Scoring Sound: Creative Music Coding with SuperColliderLeanpub
Live coding machine learning and machine listening: a survey on the design of languages and environments for live codingProceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Live Coding
Instrumental investigations at the Emute labProceedings of the International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression

2019

Composing spatial soundscapes using acoustic metasurfacesProceedings of the 14th International Audio Mostly Conference: A Journey in Sound
[Review] Tom Garner (2018) Echoes of other worlds: sound in virtual realityInternational Journal of Performance Arts and Digital Media
Sonic Writing: Technologies of Material, Symbolic and Signal InscriptionsBloomsbury Academic
Ergodynamics and a semiotics of instrumental compositionTEMPO
Scoring Sound: Creative Music Coding with SuperColliderLeanpub
An AudioWorklet-based signal engine for a live coding language ecosystemProceedings of Web Audio Conference (WAC-2019)
Sonic writing: technologies of material, symbolic, and signal inscriptions
Echoes of other worldsInternational Journal of Performance Arts and Digital Media

2018

Performing with Patterns of TimeOxford Handbook of Algorithmic Music
Ergomimesis: towards a language describing instrumental transductionsProceedings: ICLI 2018, 4th International Conference on Live Interfaces. Inspiration, Performance, Emancipation.
Brain Dead Ensemble: an acoustically networked feedback assemblage of four
Sound and Music in Networked MediaThe Routledge Companion to Sound Studies
Brain Dead EnsembleInternational Conference on Live Interfaces
Brain Dead Ensemble: An Acoustically Networked Feedback Assemblage of FourInternational Conference on Live Interfaces
Sound and music in networked media

2017

Interfacing sound: visual representation of sound in musical software instrumentsMusical Instruments in the 21st Century
Interfacing sound: visual representation of sound in musical software instruments
The acoustic, the digital and the body: a survey on musical instruments
Contextualizing Musical OrganicsProceedings of the New Interfaces for Musical Expression Conference
The Acoustic, the Digital and the Body: A Survey on Musical InstrumentsNIME READER: FIFTEEN YEARS OF NEW INTERFACES FOR MUSICAL EXPRESSION
Musical Organics: A Heterarchical Approach to Digital OrganologyJournal of New Music Research
Contextualizing musical organics: an ad-hoc organological classification approachProceedings of the International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression

2016

[Editorial] On the technology of liveness
Proceedings of the 2016 International Conference on Live Interfaces
Notating the non-notateable: digital notation of txalaparta practice
Generative Music: A Form without a FormatUniversity of Leeds
Notating the non-notateable: digital notation of txalaparta practiceInternational Conference on Technologies for Music Notation and Representation
Editorial: On the technology of livenessProceedings of the 2016 International Conference on Live Interfaces
Proceedings of the 2016 International Conference on Live Interfaces
Writing with shaky hands

2015

Code scores in live coding practiceTENOR 2015: International Conference on Technologies for Music Notation and Representation
Interfacing sound: visual representation of sound in musical software instruments
Code scores in live coding practiceProceedings of the International Conference for Technologies for Music Notation and Representation, Paris
Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Live Coding
Sight and sound: visualizing music in software instruments
Sight and sound: visualizing music in software instruments
Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Live Coding

2014

Scoring with Code: Composing with algorithmic notationOrganised Sound
Algorithmic notation: scores and timelines
Algorithmic notation: scores and timelines
Improvising with the threnoscope: integrating code, hardware, GUI, network, and graphic scoresProceedings of the New Interfaces for Musical Expression Conference
From a music industry to sound industries
Herding cats: observing live coding in the wildComputer Music Journal
Herding cats: Observing live coding in the wildComputer Music Journal
Improvising with the threnoscope: integrating code, hardware, GUI, network, and graphic scoresProceedings of the International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression
From a music industry to sound industries

2013

The threnoscope: a musical work for live coding performanceICSE
On creativity and calculation: attempts at and rejections of formal definitions of creativity [Review] editors: Jon McCormack and Mark d’Inverno (2012) Computers and creativityComputational Culture
The threnoscope: A musical work for live coding performanceICSE
Design futures: the grid--a transdisciplinary educationKnowing by Designing
Design futures: the grid - a transdisciplinary educationKnowing (by) Designing: Proceedings of the conference ‘Knowing (by) Designing’

2012

Interview with Thor Magnusson
ixi lang

2011

Interface investigations: the thinking behind tools for musical thinking
The musical score: the system and the interpreterProceedings of the International Symposium for Electronic Arts
ixi lang: a SuperCollider parasite for live codingProceedings of International Computer Music Conference
Interface investigations: the thinking behind tools for musical thinking
Computer Music Journal Sound and Video Anthology
Live coding DVDComputer Music Journal
Confessions of a live coderProceedings of the International Computer Music Conference
When instruments become architecture: on liquefying frozen music
Algorithms as scores: Coding live musicLeonardo Music Journal
The musical score: the system and the interpreterProceedings of the International Symposium for Electronic Arts
Confessions of a live coderProceedings of the International Computer Music Conference 2011
Algorithms as scores: coding live musicLeonardo Music Journal
When instruments become architecture: on liquefying frozen music
ixi lang: a SuperCollider parasite for live codingProceedings of International Computer Music Conference 2011
Live coding DVD

2010

ixi lang: a constraint system for live codingInternational Symposium for Electronic Arts
Come se emborrachar un ordenadorSonic Ideas/Ideas Sónicas
Designing constraints: Composing and performing with digital musical systemsComputer Music Journal
An epistemic dimension space for musical devices
Sobre como emborrachar un ordenadorSonic Ideas
Designing constraints: composing and performing with digital musical systemsComputer Music Journal
ixi lang: a constraint system for live codingProceedings of the 16th International Symposium on Electronic Art
Come se emborrachar un ordenadorSonic Ideas / Ideas Sónicas
An epistemic dimension space for musical devicesProceedings of the International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression

2009

Tools for Musical Thinking
SameSameButDifferent v. 02--IcelandRafskinna-DVD Magazine
Of epistemic tools: Musical instruments as cognitive extensionsOrganised Sound
Of epistemic tools: musical instruments as cognitive extensionsOrganised Sound
SameSameButDifferent v.02 – IcelandRafskinna - DVD Magazine
The phenomenology of musical instruments: a surveyeContact
ixi lang: a live coding programming language for musical performance
Outside the Box
Epistemic Tools: The Phenomenology of Digital Musical Instruments
Epistemic tools: the phenomenology of digital musical instruments

2008

Audio Coding with ixiQuarks
Thor Magnusson and Rúnar Magnússon: giooia—a variation of SameSameButDifferent v. 02—IcelandLeonardo Music Journal
The phenomenology of musical instruments: a surveyeContact!
Expression and time: the question of strata and time management in art practices using technology
Working with soundDigital Artists Handbook.
Working with soundDigital Artists Handbook.
Coding Music
Expression and time: the question of strata and time management in art practices using technology

2007

The acoustic, the digital and the body: a survey on musical instrumentsProceedings of the International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression
ixiViews: Innovative Graphical User Interfaces for Music
The ixiquarks: Merging code and gui in one creative spaceInternational Computer Music Conference Proceedings
The acoustic, the digital and the body: A survey on musical instrumentsProceedings of the 7th international conference on New interfaces for musical expression
Generative Schizotopia: SameSameButDifferent v02--IcelandSoundscape: Journal of Acoustic Ecology
Musical Collaboration Over High-speed Networks
Icelandic experiments
Icelandic experiments
The ixiQuarks: merging code and GUI in one creative spaceProceedings of the International Computer Music Conference 2007

2006

Affordances and constraints in screen-based musical instrumentsProceedings of the 4th Nordic conference on Human-computer interaction: changing roles
The ixi Instruments as Semiotic Machines
Screen-based musical instruments as semiotic machinesProceedings of the 2006 Conference on New interfaces for Musical Expression
Affordances and constraints in screen-based musical instrumentsProceedings of NordiCHI: The Nordic conference on Human-computer interaction: changing roles
The ixi Instruments as semiotic machinesInternational Computer Music Conference, ICMC 2006
ixi Audio as Semiotic Interface
Screen-based musical instruments as semiotic machinesProceedings of the International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression
Screen-based musical interfaces as semiotic machinesProceedings of the 2006 conference on New interfaces for musical expression

2005

Interfaces as Music
Ixi Software: Open controllers for Open Source audio Software.ICMC
ixi software: Open Controllers for Open Source SoftwareUniversity of Pompeu Fabra
ixi software: The Interface as InstrumentProceedings of the 2005 conference on New interfaces for musical expression
IXI software: open controllers for open source audio softwareFree Sound: The ICMC 2005 Conference Proceedings
Söngvar Sólvindanna
Ixi software: The interface as instrumentProceedings of the International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression
Intelligent Tools in MusicArtificial

2003

Lunarly visible
Lunarly visible

2002

Processor Art

2000

Video in transitNU: the Nordic art review

Keywords for Specialisation:

Digital humanities

Artificial Intelligence

Philosophy of Music

Philosophy of technology

Science and literature

Human-computer interaction

Computer Science

Cognitive Science