Thor Magnusson

I am working in the Department of Informatics at the University of Sussex and member of the Creative Systems Lab.

Work in progress (preliminary title):
Digital Musical Instruments as Epistemic Tools: Cognition and Embodiment in Screen-Based HCI Design

I am doing a PhD in Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence, concentrating on Human Computer Interaction issues in musical software. My interest is in creating high level control interfaces which contain lower level automation of sound parametres. I like to see the interface as an instrument, creating graphical applications which control musical structures. The phenomenology of musical instruments is of particular interest, and the techno-philosophical implications that are implied in the desire to create musical machines and epistemic tools. Machine learning is part of the project as the aim is to make instruments that learn facts about the musician.

Website: ixi audio

teaching: Models of Creativity, Computational Music 1 & Creative Software Systems

email: T.Magnusson <a> sussex.ac.uk