Article

Design principles and user interfaces of Erkki Kurenniemi's electronic musical instruments of the 1960's and 1970's

Authors:

Kai LassfolkAuthors Info & Claims

NIME '07: Proceedings of the 7th international conference on New interfaces for musical expression

Pages 88 - 93

https://doi.org/10.1145/1279740.1279756

Published: 06 June 2007 Publication History

Abstract

This paper presents a line of historic electronic musical instruments designed by Erkki Kurenniemi in the 1960's and 1970's. Kurenniemi's instruments were influenced by digital logic and an experimental attitude towards user interface design. The paper presents an overview of Kurenniemi's instruments and a detailed description of selected devices. Emphasis is put on user interface issues such as unconventional interactive real-time control and programming methods.

References

[1]

A. Douglas. The Electronic Musical Instrument Manual. 6. edition. Pitman publishing, London, 1976.

[2]

P. Kuljuntausta. On/Off: eetteriäänistä sähkömusiikkiin. Like, Helsinki, 2002.

[3]

E. Kurenniemi. Taped interview by Mikko Ojanen and Jari Suominen, Helsinki, 29 May 2004.

[4]

E. Kurenniemi. Elektronisen musiikin instrumenteista. Musiikki, 1:37--41, 1971.

[5]

E. Kurenniemi. Musical harmonies are divisor sets. In Proceedings of Nordic acoustical meeting 88, pages 371--374, Tampere, 1988.

[6]

E. Kurenniemi. Erkki Kurenniemi: äänityksiä/recordings: 1963--1973. Siboney, Helsinki, 2002. CD.

[7]

M. Kurosu and K. Kashimura. Apparent usability vs. inherent usability: experimental analysis on the determinants of the apparent usability. In CHI '95: Proceedings of the SIGCHI conference on Human factors in computing systems, pages 292--293, 1995.

Digital Library

[8]

R. Lundsten. Taped interview by Jari Suominen, Stockholm, 8 June 2004.

[9]

D. Norman. Emotional Design. Basic Books, New York, 2003.

[10]

M. A. Numminen. Taped interview by Jari Suominen, Helsinki, 7 October 2006.

[11]

M. Ojanen. Jukka Ruohomäen sävellystuotanto ja tyylipiirteet 1970-luvulla: Esimerkkianalyysi teoksesta Pisces. Master's thesis, University of Helsinki, 2007.

[12]

M. Ojanen and J. Suominen. Erkki Kurenniemen sähkösoittimet. Musiikki, 3:15--44, 2005.

[13]

T. Pinch and F. Trocco. Analog Days: The Invention and Impact of the Moog Synthesizer. Harvard University Press, November 2004.

[14]

T. Rossing. Science of Sound, 2. edition. Addison-Wesley, New York, 1990.

[15]

J. Ruohomäki. Taped interview by Mikko Ojanen, Jari Suominen and Kai Lassfolk, Helsinki, 4 December 2004.

[16]

M. Taanila. Future is not what it used to be. Kinotar, Helsinki, 2002. DVD.

[17]

K. Tiits. Voluntääriassistentti Kurenniemi ja elektronimusiikin alku yliopistolla. Master's thesis, University of Helsinki, 1990.

[18]

N. Tractinsky. Aesthetics and apparent usability: empirically assessing cultural and methodological issues. In CHI '97: Proceedings of the SIGCHI conference on Human factors in computing systems, pages 115--122. ACM Press, 1997.

Digital Library

[19]

H. Viitasalo. Taped interview by Mikko Ojanen and Jari Suominen, Vantaa, 4 November 2004.

Cited By

Giomi A(2020)Somatic Sonification in Dance Performances. From the Artistic to the Perceptual and BackProceedings of the 7th International Conference on Movement and Computing10.1145/3401956.3404226(1-8)Online publication date: 15-Jul-2020
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3401956.3404226
Eaton JMiranda E(2014)On Mapping EEG Information into MusicGuide to Brain-Computer Music Interfacing10.1007/978-1-4471-6584-2_10(221-254)Online publication date: 4-Oct-2014
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-6584-2_10
Beira JCarvalho RKox SChambel TBove VStrover SViana PThomas G(2013)Mixed reality immersive designProceedings of the 2013 ACM international workshop on Immersive media experiences10.1145/2512142.2512147(45-50)Online publication date: 22-Oct-2013
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/2512142.2512147
Show More Cited By

Design principles and user interfaces of Erkki Kurenniemi's electronic musical instruments of the 1960's and 1970's
1. Applied computing
  1. Arts and humanities

Recommendations

Natural interfaces for musical expression: physiphones and a physics-based organology
NIME '07: Proceedings of the 7th international conference on New interfaces for musical expression

This paper presents two main ideas:

(1) Various newly invented liquid-based or underwater musical instruments are proposed that function like woodwind instruments but use water instead of air. These "woodwater" instruments expand the space of known ...
Interaction design for electronic musical interfaces
CHI EA '04: CHI '04 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems

In this research we want to study the interaction between musicians and the technology they use, by designing novel musical interfaces and performing a series of user tests. We propose a novel interface for building Digital Signal Processing (DSP) ...
Creating new interfaces for musical expression: introduction to NIME (Copyright restrictions prevent ACM from providing the full text for this article)
SA '10: ACM SIGGRAPH ASIA 2010 Courses

Due to advances in digital audio technologies, computers now play a role in most music production and performance. Digital technologies offer unprecedented opportunities for creation and manipulation of sound, but the flexibilty of these new ...

Comments

Please enable JavaScript to view thecomments powered by Disqus.

Information & Contributors

Information

Published In

cover image ACM Other conferences

NIME '07: Proceedings of the 7th international conference on New interfaces for musical expression

June 2007

484 pages

ISBN:9781450378376

DOI:10.1145/1279740

Conference Chairs:
Carol Parkinson
Harvestworks Digital Media Arts Center
,
Eric Singer
LEMUR: League of Electronic Musical Urban Robots

Copyright © 2007 ACM.

Permission to make digital or hard copies of all or part of this work for personal or classroom use is granted without fee provided that copies are not made or distributed for profit or commercial advantage and that copies bear this notice and the full citation on the first page. Copyrights for components of this work owned by others than ACM must be honored. Abstracting with credit is permitted. To copy otherwise, or republish, to post on servers or to redistribute to lists, requires prior specific permission and/or a fee. Request permissions from [email protected]

Sponsors

New York University Music Technology Program
Harvestworks
LEMUR: League of Electronic Musical Urban Robots

Publisher

Association for Computing Machinery

New York, NY, United States

Publication History

Published: 06 June 2007

Permissions

Request permissions for this article.

Request Permissions

Check for updates

Author Tags

Qualifiers

Article

Contributors

Other Metrics

View Article Metrics

Bibliometrics & Citations

Bibliometrics

Article Metrics

4
Total Citations
View Citations
219
Total Downloads

Downloads (Last 12 months)5
Downloads (Last 6 weeks)1

Reflects downloads up to 23 Jan 2025

Other Metrics

View Author Metrics

Citations

Cited By

Giomi A(2020)Somatic Sonification in Dance Performances. From the Artistic to the Perceptual and BackProceedings of the 7th International Conference on Movement and Computing10.1145/3401956.3404226(1-8)Online publication date: 15-Jul-2020
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3401956.3404226
Eaton JMiranda E(2014)On Mapping EEG Information into MusicGuide to Brain-Computer Music Interfacing10.1007/978-1-4471-6584-2_10(221-254)Online publication date: 4-Oct-2014
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-6584-2_10
Beira JCarvalho RKox SChambel TBove VStrover SViana PThomas G(2013)Mixed reality immersive designProceedings of the 2013 ACM international workshop on Immersive media experiences10.1145/2512142.2512147(45-50)Online publication date: 22-Oct-2013
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/2512142.2512147
Paalasmaa JMurphy DHolmqvist O(2012)Analysis of noisy biosignals for musical performanceProceedings of the 11th international conference on Advances in Intelligent Data Analysis10.1007/978-3-642-34156-4_23(241-252)Online publication date: 25-Oct-2012
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1007/978-3-642-34156-4_23

View Options

Login options

Check if you have access through your login credentials or your institution to get full access on this article.

Full Access

Get this Publication

View options

PDF

View or Download as a PDF file.

eReader

View online with eReader.

Media

Figures

Other

Tables

View Table of Contents