CONTACT IXI : texts and ideas :

"ixi lang: a SuperCollider Parasite for Live Coding"
[SuperCollider Symposium 2010]

A paper presented at the SuperCollider Symposium in Berlin 2010 on the ixi lang can be found here.

"An Epistemic Dimension Space for Musical Devices"
[NIME 2010]

Thor Magnusson presented a paper at NIME 2010 called "An Epistemic Dimension Space for Musical Devices." It addresses some issues in the Organised Sound paper and presents the findings in the framework of dimension spaces for analysis of digital musical instruments. The paper is available here.

Epistemic Tools
[Organised Sound 2009]

An article by Thor Magnusson, On Epistemic Tools: Musical Instruments as Cognitive Extensions (© 2009 Cambridge University Press) is published by Organised Sound vol. 14 (2). This issue of Organised Sound, edited by Garth Paine, focuses on interactivity in musical instruments.

"The Phenomenology of Musical Instruments: A Survey"
[eContact 10.4 2008]

The Canadian Electroacoustic Community have an online magazine called eContact. They invited us to write on our survey for their issue on improvisation. We wrote an article called The Phenomenology of Musical Instruments: A Survey

"Working with Sound"
[The Digital Artists Handbook, 2008]

We wrote an article on free and open source sound software for The Digital Artists Handbook. There are lots of interesting texts on this website. Enjoy!

"SameSameButDifferent v.02 - Iceland"
[YLEM Journal, 2007]

This article is an invited text for the fantastic journal YLEM that has been publishing brilliant articles on electronic art for decades. Check out the YLEM journal

"The ixiQuarks: Merging Code and GUI in One Creative Space"
[ICMC 2007 proceedings]

The International Computer Music Conference (ICMC) was held in Copenhagen in August. There were nice concerts and papers. We performed the SSBD piece in Huset and presented a paper on the ixiQuarks. The paper can be found here.
Conference website

"The Acoustic, the Digital and the Body: A Survey on Musical Instruments"
[NIME 2007 proceedings]

This paper is published in the NIME 2007 (New Interfaces for Musical Expression) proceedings. It reports on the results of the survey we conducted in the autumn of 2006 on our website. The NIME 2007 conference took place in June at New York University, New York. The paper can be found here.
Conference website

"Affordances and Constraints in Screen-Based Musical Instruments"
[NordiCHI 2006 proceedings]

The Nordic conference in Human Computer Interaction (NordiCHI) was held in Oslo this year. We presented our work there and wrote a paper which can be found here.

"Screen-Based Musical Instruments as Semiotic Machines"
[NIME 2006 proceedings]

This paper is published in the NIME 2006 (New Interfaces for Musical Expression) proceedings. The conference took place in June at IRCAM, Paris. The paper can be found here.
Conference website
IRCAM

"Intelligent Tools in Music"
[in Artificial]

A text called Intelligent Tools in Music was written for Artificial. The text goes a bit into the ideas computational creativity and where the power of the computer can be utilised the best way.

"ixi software: Open Controllers for Open Source Audio Software"
[ICMC 2005 proceedings]

This article is published in the ICMC 2005 (International Computer Music Conference) proceedings. The conference took place in September, 2005 in Barcelona and had the theme of "free sound". The text can be found here. The "free sound project" can be found on the ICMC 2005 website.

"ixi software: The Interface as Instrument"
[NIME 2005 proceedings]

This paper by Thor appeared in the NIME (New Instruments for Musical Expression) proceedings following a very interesting conference in Vancouver, Canada. The text can be found here, and check out the NIME website as well.

"Software, music, culture"
[Article in Zehar magazine]

An article by Enrike from ixi was published in the 53rd issue of the ZEHAR magazine. The article its titled "Software, Music, Culture" and it can be downloaded from the following links: basque | english | spanish

"Processor Art: Currents in the Process Oriented Works of Generative and Software Art"
[by Thor Magnusson from ixi]

An Essay on Generative and Software Art. This writing analyses the background and current situation of generative art and software art in the contemporary arts. It tastes well with curry.

Please feel free to download the thesis in .pdf format from the links below:

- high resolution (for printing)
- low resolution (for screen)