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Our Ultra-Processed Interfaces – What Music Technology Can Learn From Doritos – Astrid Bin – ADC 2024

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Our Ultra-Processed Interfaces - What Music Technology Can Learn From Doritos - Astrid Bin - ADC 2024
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Many digital musical instruments, both commercial and otherwise, share similar interface design characteristics like rectangular rubber pads, piano interfaces, sliders, and grids of controls. These conventions are useful, but where do they come from, and why are they so ubiquitous?

In this talk I dive deep into how the design conventions of music interfaces have evolved, and how traditionally they're deeply rooted in the culture in which they're created ... until recently. I discuss how this decoupling of musical interfaces from cultural context has developed alongside the larger contemporary trend of "ultra-processing", a way of creating consumable products, from food to media to devices, that are engineered for maximum consumption. I describe how this idea of ultra-processing can be observed in digital musical interfaces, as well as the larger social, economic, and cultural effects of ultra-processing on our musical outputs. Along with a historical and theoretical perspective on interface design, this talk discusses ways that we might adopt an informed and critical standpoint when creating interfaces for ourselves, and for others.
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Slides: https://data.audio.dev/talks/2024/our-ultra-processed-interfaces/slides.pdf
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Astrid Bin

Astrid Bin is an artist and designer who specialises in making complex things useful, beautiful and understandable. Alongside her history of working as an announcer for international Lego robot competitions and explaining rocket science to children, she's also worked as a music technology researcher across academia and industry, and currently leads design at Bela.io. She lives in Berlin.
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Special thanks to the ADC24 Team:

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Derek Heimlich
Andrew Kirk
Bobby Lombardi
Tom Poole
Ralph Richbourg
Jim Roper
Jonathan Roper
Prashant Mishra

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Playful Interfaces for Experimental Music – Allwin Williams – ADCxGather 2024

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Playful Interfaces for Experimental Music - Allwin Williams - ADCxGather 2024
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Traditional musical instruments are tactile, intuitive, and rewarding, allowing musicians to connect directly with the sounds they create. However, today’s experimental music tools can feel intimidating—modular synthesizers with knobs and wires, and complex programming often lack the simple joy of hitting, playing, and freely exploring sounds. They create a barrier for beginners wanting to explore.

To address this gap, new interfaces are needed to bring back that immediate, playful connection to sound. By making experimental music tools more intuitive, hands-on, and accessible, these new interfaces can allow more people to explore sonic creativity without requiring in-depth technical skills or knowledge. In my talk, I’ll discuss specific examples of these new interfaces from around the world and how an interaction design approach can help lower these barriers, making experimental music more inviting and approachable for everyone. This shift can encourage more people to express themselves through sound, opening up experimental music to a broader audience.
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Allwin Williams

Allwin is an interaction designer currently working with a science museum to setup a sound and music gallery. He also runs a personalized fashion business and takes courses on tangible interface design at design schools. He loves experimenting with tech, electronics, and the web.
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ADC is an annual event celebrating all audio development technologies, from music applications and game audio to audio processing and embedded systems. ADC’s mission is to help attendees acquire and develop new audio development skills, and build a network that will support their audio developer career.
Annual ADC Conference - https://audio.dev/
https://www.linkedin.com/company/audiodevcon

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Streamed & Edited by Digital Medium Ltd: https://online.digital-medium.co.uk
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Organized and produced by JUCE: https://juce.com/
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Special thanks to the ADCxGather Team:

Sophie Carus
Derek Heimlich
Andrew Kirk
Bobby Lombardi
Tom Poole
Ralph Richbourg
Jim Roper
Jonathan Roper
Prashant Mishra

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