Beyond Guitar Hero: New Paradigms in Interactive Performance

Assignments

Read by
September 16	Disembodied Performance, Peter Torpey, p. 1–87 “Beyond Guitar Hero — Towards a New Musical Ecology.”
September 23	ENO Lost Highway: Behind the Scenes with Diane Paulus Diane Paulus on Experience the A.R.T. Diane Paulus on The Donkey Show
September 30	Read all of Disembodied Performance Watch assorted Hyperinstruments videos
October 7	“While My Guitar Gently Beeps.” Critical Review of The Beatles: Rock Band “How Horrendous Failure Led to Rock Band” Eran Egozy's Master's Thesis Alex Rigopulos's Master's Thesis Listening, Playing, and Questions Assignment

Links Mentioned in Class

September 23	Swooping the Orchestra Glimmer (2004) for Chamber Orchestra and Audience Dan Deacon
September 30	Glenn Gould Reader Series of articles by and about Glenn Gould Brain Opera, article about the Glenn Gould and John Cage references “The Secret Life of Eran Egozy”, NPR Here and Now Review of Robert Lepage's Lipsynch

Required Readings

• Torpey, P. Disembodied Performance: Abstraction of Representation in Live Theater. M.S. Thesis: MIT Media Laboratory, 2009.
• Machover, T. “Beyond Guitar Hero — Towards a New Musical Ecology.” RSA Journal: London, January–March 2009.
• Weinberg, G. Interconnected Musical Networks - Bringing Expression and Thoughtfulness to Collaborative Group Playing. PhD. Thesis: MIT Media Laboratory, 2003.
• Downie, M. Choreographing the Extended Agent: Performance Graphics for Dance Theater. PhD. Thesis: MIT Media Laboratory, 2005.
• Rigopulos, A. Growing Music from Seeds: Parametric Generation and Control of Seed-Based Music for Interactive Composition and Performance. M.S. Thesis: MIT Media Laboratory, 1994.
• Egozy, E. Deriving Musical Control Features from a Real-Time Analysis of the Clarinet. M.S. Thesis: MIT MEdia Laboratory, 1994.
• Machover, T. “Hyperinstruments: A Progress Report 1987–1991.”MIT Media Laboratory, January 1992.
• “While My Guitar Gently Beeps.” The New York Times Magazine, 16 August 2009.
• “Critical Review of The Beatles: Rock Band.” The New York Times, 6 September 2009.
• “How Horrendous Failure Led to Rock Band” CNN Money.com, 3 September 2009.