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Þórhallur Magnússon - FIXME

Þórhallur Magnússon

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School of Humanities

Þórhallur Magnússon

FIXME

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

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

2022

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

2021

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

2020

Scoring Sound: Creative Music Coding with SuperColliderLeanpub
Threnoscope
A signal engine for a live coding language ecosystemJournal of the Audio Engineering Society
Instrumental investigations at the Emute labProceedings of the International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression,
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: an international journal of music and technology
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
Designing for a pluralist and user-friendly live code language ecosystem with SemaProceedings of the 2020 International Conference on Live Coding (ICLC2020)
Digitizing the txalaparta: computer-based study of a traditional practiceComputer Music Journal

2019

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

2018

Brain Dead EnsembleInternational Conference on Live Interfaces
Sound and Music in Networked MediaThe Routledge Companion to Sound Studies
Performing with Patterns of TimeOxford Handbook of Algorithmic Music
Brain Dead Ensemble: an acoustically networked feedback assemblage of four
Sound and music in networked media
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 FourInternational Conference on Live Interfaces

2017

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

2016

Proceedings of the 2016 International Conference on Live Interfaces
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
[Editorial] On the technology of liveness
Writing with shaky hands

2015

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

2014

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

2013

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
The threnoscope: A musical work for live coding performanceICSE
Design futures: the grid - a transdisciplinary educationKnowing (by) Designing: Proceedings of the conference ‘Knowing (by) Designing’
Design futures: the grid--a transdisciplinary educationKnowing by Designing

2012

ixi lang
Interview with Thor Magnusson

2011

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

2010

Designing constraints: composing and performing with digital musical systemsComputer Music Journal
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
ixi lang: a constraint system for live codingInternational Symposium for Electronic Arts
Sobre como emborrachar un ordenadorSonic Ideas
An epistemic dimension space for musical devicesProceedings of the 2010 Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression
ixi lang: a constraint system for live codingProceedings of the 16th International Symposium on Electronic Art
Come se emborrachar un ordenadorSonic Ideas / Ideas Sónicas

2009

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

2008

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

2007

The ixiquarks: Merging code and gui in one creative spaceInternational Computer Music Conference Proceedings
Musical Collaboration Over High-speed Networks
Icelandic experiments
The acoustic, the digital and the body: a survey on musical instrumentsProceedings of the 2007 Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression
ixiViews: Innovative Graphical User Interfaces for Music
Icelandic experiments
The ixiQuarks: merging code and GUI in one creative spaceProceedings of the International Computer Music Conference 2007
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

2006

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

2005

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

2003

Lunarly visible
Lunarly visible

2002

Processor Art

2000

Video in transitNU: the Nordic art review