Andrew McPherson

Passing on tacit knowledge of DMI making and the challenges of documentation

This paper discusses a method for evaluating the repurposing of motor skills in expert performers, based on subtle periodic changes in the action-sound couplings of digital musical instruments.

Describing the implementation of an ultrasonic art installation, whereby interactivity emerges as a result of fixed acoustic properties in the system.

An introduction and commentary on dialogic design approaches to building ADMIs by critiquing commonly used participatory design methods

Exploring design fiction and absurd making as NIME practices

This paper suggests the value of traditional musicological analyses of the music made with new instruments, taking as a case study the motivic analysis of performances on a large-scale digital musical instrument.