Resumen de Notated control as composed liveness in works for digitally extended voice
This study argues that learning of varying control mappings in digitally extended voice works imbues body and memory into liveness. First, the author's extended voice practice is discussed. The Abacus, a unique, microphonemounted, Arduino Teensy-based musical interface, controls granulation of live vocal samples. There are sixteen pre-composed mappings of Abacus control data (eight toggle switches) to granulation parameters, and mapping changes regularly. An animated screen score provides manual toggle control instructions, which didactically supply information on current mapping. Subsequently, discussion turns to works by other extended voice practitioners and to a larger context of screen scores and musical games. Building outward from notions of vocal intimacy and presence, extended voice uses technology for temporal exploration of timbre. Screen scores and musical games highlight learning, but typically utilize an unchanging control mapping throughout the piece or game.
My work constitutes a novel intersection of these practices, arguing that repeated, notation-driven learning of the action-sound relationship thematizes complex interactions between body, temporality, memory, and presence.
