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Þórhallur Magnússon - Research Professor
–
School of Humanities
Þórhallur Magnússon
Íslenska
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
 
 
 
Education
2009
,
Ph.D.
,
University of Sussex
,
Computer Science and AI
2002
,
cand. mag.
,
University of Copenhagen
,
Cultural Studies
2001
,
MA
,
Middlesex University
,
Electronic Arts
1997
,
BA
,
University of Iceland
,
Philosophy
Professional Experience
2024 -
,
Research Professor,
University of Iceland
2019 -
,
Professor of Future Music,
University of Sussex
2021 -
2024,
Research Professor,
Iceland University of the Arts
2020 -
2021,
Guest Professor,
Technische Universität Berlin
2018 -
2021,
Head of Music Department,
University of Sussex
2013 -
2019,
Senior Lecturer,
University of Sussex
2008 -
2013,
Senior Lecturer,
University of Brighton
2007 -
2011,
Lecturer,
Middlesex University
Published works
2023
Sculpting Algorithmic Pattern: Informal and Visuospatial Interaction in Musical Instrument Design
Proceedings of the Sound and Music Computing Conferences
A in AIMC
International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Music Creativity
Design Process in Visual Programming: Methods for Visual and Temporal Analysis
Proceedings of the Sound and Music Computing Conferences
Editorial: Live Coding Sonic Creativities
Organised Sound
2022
Embedded AI for NIME: Challenges and Opportunities
Autocoder: a Variational Autoencoder for Spectral Synthesis
International 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 learning
Lecture Notes in Computer Science
Curating experience: Composition as cultural technology – a conversation
Journal of New Music Research
Designing the Threnoscope, or, How I Wrote One of My Pieces
Sound Work: Composition as Critical Technical Practice
Introduction to the special issue on socio-cultural role of technology in digital musical instruments
Journal of New Music Research
The migration of musical instruments: On the socio-technological conditions of musical evolution
Journal of New Music Research
2020
Designing for a pluralist and user-friendly live code language ecosystem with Sema
Proceedings of the 2020 International Conference on Live Coding (ICLC2020)
Threnoscope
Digitizing the txalaparta: computer-based study of a traditional practice
Computer 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 ecosystem
AES: Journal of the Audio Engineering Society
Scoring Sound: Creative Music Coding with SuperCollider
Leanpub
Live coding machine learning and machine listening: a survey on the design of languages and environments for live coding
Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Live Coding
Instrumental investigations at the Emute lab
Proceedings of the International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression
2019
Composing spatial soundscapes using acoustic metasurfaces
Proceedings of the 14th International Audio Mostly Conference: A Journey in Sound
[Review] Tom Garner (2018) Echoes of other worlds: sound in virtual reality
International Journal of Performance Arts and Digital Media
Sonic Writing: Technologies of Material, Symbolic and Signal Inscriptions
Bloomsbury Academic
Ergodynamics and a semiotics of instrumental composition
TEMPO
Scoring Sound: Creative Music Coding with SuperCollider
Leanpub
An AudioWorklet-based signal engine for a live coding language ecosystem
Proceedings of Web Audio Conference (WAC-2019)
Sonic writing: technologies of material, symbolic, and signal inscriptions
Echoes of other worlds
International Journal of Performance Arts and Digital Media
2018
Performing with Patterns of Time
Oxford Handbook of Algorithmic Music
Ergomimesis: towards a language describing instrumental transductions
Proceedings: 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 Media
The Routledge Companion to Sound Studies
Brain Dead Ensemble
International Conference on Live Interfaces
Brain Dead Ensemble: An Acoustically Networked Feedback Assemblage of Four
International Conference on Live Interfaces
Sound and music in networked media
2017
Interfacing sound: visual representation of sound in musical software instruments
Musical 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 Organics
Proceedings of the New Interfaces for Musical Expression Conference
The Acoustic, the Digital and the Body: A Survey on Musical Instruments
NIME READER: FIFTEEN YEARS OF NEW INTERFACES FOR MUSICAL EXPRESSION
Musical Organics: A Heterarchical Approach to Digital Organology
Journal of New Music Research
Contextualizing musical organics: an ad-hoc organological classification approach
Proceedings 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 Format
University of Leeds
Notating the non-notateable: digital notation of txalaparta practice
International Conference on Technologies for Music Notation and Representation
Editorial: On the technology of liveness
Proceedings 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 practice
TENOR 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 practice
Proceedings 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 notation
Organised Sound
Algorithmic notation: scores and timelines
Algorithmic notation: scores and timelines
Improvising with the threnoscope: integrating code, hardware, GUI, network, and graphic scores
Proceedings of the New Interfaces for Musical Expression Conference
From a music industry to sound industries
Herding cats: observing live coding in the wild
Computer Music Journal
Herding cats: Observing live coding in the wild
Computer Music Journal
Improvising with the threnoscope: integrating code, hardware, GUI, network, and graphic scores
Proceedings 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 performance
ICSE
On creativity and calculation: attempts at and rejections of formal definitions of creativity [Review] editors: Jon McCormack and Mark d’Inverno (2012) Computers and creativity
Computational Culture
The threnoscope: A musical work for live coding performance
ICSE
Design futures: the grid--a transdisciplinary education
Knowing by Designing
Design futures: the grid - a transdisciplinary education
Knowing (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 interpreter
Proceedings of the International Symposium for Electronic Arts
ixi lang: a SuperCollider parasite for live coding
Proceedings of International Computer Music Conference
Interface investigations: the thinking behind tools for musical thinking
Computer Music Journal Sound and Video Anthology
Live coding DVD
Computer Music Journal
Confessions of a live coder
Proceedings of the International Computer Music Conference
When instruments become architecture: on liquefying frozen music
Algorithms as scores: Coding live music
Leonardo Music Journal
The musical score: the system and the interpreter
Proceedings of the International Symposium for Electronic Arts
Confessions of a live coder
Proceedings of the International Computer Music Conference 2011
Algorithms as scores: coding live music
Leonardo Music Journal
When instruments become architecture: on liquefying frozen music
ixi lang: a SuperCollider parasite for live coding
Proceedings of International Computer Music Conference 2011
Live coding DVD
2010
ixi lang: a constraint system for live coding
International Symposium for Electronic Arts
Come se emborrachar un ordenador
Sonic Ideas/Ideas Sónicas
Designing constraints: Composing and performing with digital musical systems
Computer Music Journal
An epistemic dimension space for musical devices
Sobre como emborrachar un ordenador
Sonic Ideas
Designing constraints: composing and performing with digital musical systems
Computer Music Journal
ixi lang: a constraint system for live coding
Proceedings of the 16th International Symposium on Electronic Art
Come se emborrachar un ordenador
Sonic Ideas / Ideas Sónicas
An epistemic dimension space for musical devices
Proceedings of the International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression
2009
Tools for Musical Thinking
SameSameButDifferent v. 02--Iceland
Rafskinna-DVD Magazine
Of epistemic tools: Musical instruments as cognitive extensions
Organised Sound
Of epistemic tools: musical instruments as cognitive extensions
Organised Sound
SameSameButDifferent v.02 – Iceland
Rafskinna - DVD Magazine
The phenomenology of musical instruments: a survey
eContact
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—Iceland
Leonardo Music Journal
The phenomenology of musical instruments: a survey
eContact!
Expression and time: the question of strata and time management in art practices using technology
Working with sound
Digital Artists Handbook.
Working with sound
Digital 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 instruments
Proceedings 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 space
International Computer Music Conference Proceedings
The acoustic, the digital and the body: A survey on musical instruments
Proceedings of the 7th international conference on New interfaces for musical expression
Generative Schizotopia: SameSameButDifferent v02--Iceland
Soundscape: Journal of Acoustic Ecology
Musical Collaboration Over High-speed Networks
Icelandic experiments
Icelandic experiments
The ixiQuarks: merging code and GUI in one creative space
Proceedings of the International Computer Music Conference 2007
2006
Affordances and constraints in screen-based musical instruments
Proceedings of the 4th Nordic conference on Human-computer interaction: changing roles
The ixi Instruments as Semiotic Machines
Screen-based musical instruments as semiotic machines
Proceedings of the 2006 Conference on New interfaces for Musical Expression
Affordances and constraints in screen-based musical instruments
Proceedings of NordiCHI: The Nordic conference on Human-computer interaction: changing roles
The ixi Instruments as semiotic machines
International Computer Music Conference, ICMC 2006
ixi Audio as Semiotic Interface
Screen-based musical instruments as semiotic machines
Proceedings of the International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression
Screen-based musical interfaces as semiotic machines
Proceedings 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 Software
University of Pompeu Fabra
ixi software: The Interface as Instrument
Proceedings of the 2005 conference on New interfaces for musical expression
IXI software: open controllers for open source audio software
Free Sound: The ICMC 2005 Conference Proceedings
Söngvar Sólvindanna
Ixi software: The interface as instrument
Proceedings of the International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression
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2003
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Lunarly visible
2002
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2000
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NU: the Nordic art review
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