Research

Paper analyses, weekly digests, and emerging research themes.

The Tonnetz at First Sight: Cognitive Issues of HCI with Pitch Spaces

26 Mar 2024 — Besada, Bisesi, Guichaoua, Andreatta
First empirical study of how users cognitively interact with Tonnetz interfaces — strong music theory needed, geometry biases understanding
TonnetzHCIpitch spacesmusic cognitionspatial representation

Intermedial Interference in Electroacoustic Audiovisual Composition

1 Jan 2024 — Antonino Chiaramonte
Practice-based PhD introducing intermedial interference as a framework for understanding how sound and image combine, integrate, and fuse in electroacoustic audiovisual composition
intermedial interferenceaudiovisual compositionelectroacoustic musicpractice-based researchmusique concretevisual music

Cellular Au-Tonnetz: A Unified Audio-Visual MIDI Generator

1 Jan 2024 — Tom Didiot-Cook
A unified audio-visual MIDI instrument using Tonnetz geometry, cellular automata, and ESP32 IoT — the foundational AutoTonnetz paper
Tonnetzcellular automataIoTaudio-visualsynesthesiaMIDIESP32

The Modalities of Media: A Model for Understanding Intermedial Relations

1 Jan 2010 — Lars Ellestrom
Proposes a four-modality model of media (material, sensorial, spatiotemporal, semiotic) that bridges intermedial and multimodal studies and provides a systematic framework for comparing any media
media modalitiesintermedialitymultimodalitymedia theorysemioticsspatiotemporal

Intermediality, Intertextuality and Remediation: A Literary Studies Perspective on Intermediality

1 Jan 2005 — Irina O. Rajewsky
Proposes three subcategories of intermediality — medial transposition, media combination, and intermedial references — providing analytical vocabulary for describing cross-media relationships
intermedialityintertextualityremediationmedia theorymedia combinationintermedial references

Remediation: Understanding New Media

1 Jan 1999 — Jay David Bolter, Richard Grusin
Foundational text introducing the double logic of remediation — immediacy and hypermediacy — arguing all new media refashion prior media forms
remediationimmediacyhypermediacynew mediamedia theorydigital media