Icarus: a game/performance for the augmented drum-kit

Christos Michalakos

Icarus: a game/performance for the augmented drum-kit

Christos Michalakos

Department of Games and Arts

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Abstract

ICARUS is a game/performance for the augmented drum-kit. The work explores improvised musical structures within a game setting, where the player navigates between five musical chapters. Each of these levels defines a particular set of musical interactions, sonorities, and performance possibilities through distinct mappings and level design. The performer is free to improvise, fail, explore, and through trial and error understand what the game rules are and complete each chapter. This results into a dynamic audio-visual performance, where while the rules are fixed, each level can be completed in multitude of ways.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	xCoAx 2020
Subtitle of host publication	proceedings of the Eighth Conference on Computation, Communication, Aesthetics & X
Editors	Mario Verdicchio, Miguel Carvalhais, Luísa Ribas, André Rangel
Place of Publication	Porto
Publisher	Universidade do Porto
Pages	393-395
Number of pages	3
ISBN (Print)	9789897462665
Publication status	Published - 8 Jul 2020
Event	8th Conference on Computation, Communication, Aesthetics & X - online Duration: 8 Jul 2020 → 10 Jul 2020 Conference number: 8th https://2020.xcoax.org/

Conference

Conference	8th Conference on Computation, Communication, Aesthetics & X
Abbreviated title	xCoAx 2020
Period	8/07/20 → 10/07/20
Internet address	https://2020.xcoax.org/

Keywords

Games
NIME
Improvisation
Live electronics
Game audio
Music games

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ICARUS
Michalakos, C. (Artist), 23 Jun 2019
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Michalakos, C 2020, Icarus: a game/performance for the augmented drum-kit. in M Verdicchio, M Carvalhais, L Ribas & A Rangel (eds), xCoAx 2020: proceedings of the Eighth Conference on Computation, Communication, Aesthetics & X. Universidade do Porto, Porto, pp. 393-395, 8th Conference on Computation, Communication, Aesthetics & X, 8/07/20. <https://2020.xcoax.org/xCoAx2020.pdf>

Icarus: a game/performance for the augmented drum-kit. / Michalakos, Christos.
xCoAx 2020: proceedings of the Eighth Conference on Computation, Communication, Aesthetics & X. ed. / Mario Verdicchio; Miguel Carvalhais; Luísa Ribas; André Rangel. Porto: Universidade do Porto, 2020. p. 393-395.

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution

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