the research project

We are a team of musicians, artists,  researchers, engineers, and scholars at Arizona State University who want to share this work with the local youth music community to understand how it fosters new modes of engagement and participation in music and technology. Can ASRs enact communities of collaboration that rely less on music notation as a prerequisite for involvement? Do they put the violin in touch with the kinds of music engagement that happen outside of school, such as covering, remixing, sample-based producing, and tutorial creation? Are they useful for introducing violinists to the algorithmic arts, computational thinking, and STEAM collaboration? Experimentation with ASRs invokes a triad of coding, instrument making, and composition, and generates novel connectivities and forms of social and musical praxis.

artists and educators

research team