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Composition models for augmented instruments: HASGS as case study
This paper presents the concept of HASGS regarding the
augmentation procedures applied to an acoustic instrument, at the
same time that it is analyzed how composers applied technology
prototyped to the composition of works. The development of
HASGS has been driven by the compositional aspects of the original
music created for this specific electronic augmented instrumental
system. Instruments are characterized not only by their sound
and acoustical properties but also by their performative
interface and evolutionary repertoire. This last aspect has the
potential to establish a practice among performers at the same
time as creating the ideal of community contributing to the past,
present and future of that instrument. Augmenting an acoustic
instrument places some limitations on the designer ́s palette of
feasible gestures because of those intrinsic performance
gestures, and the existing mechanical interface, which have
been developed over years, sometimes, centuries of acoustic
practice. We conclude that acoustic instruments and digital
technology, are able to influence and interact mutually creating
Augmented Musical Performance environments based on the
aesthetics of the repertoire being developed. This work is, as
well, a resource of compositional methods to composers and
programmers.publishe