Conventional non-computing and unconventional musical signal processing

Baracskai, Zlatko

Abstract

As the scepsis maintains its lead in scientific enquiry giving birth to unconventional computing, one must poke at the newborn as well. By manipulating the terms convention and computing, challenges are posed to their meaning in the contemporary context. The main suspect is the concept of outcome as it necessitates thresholding which is a human concept and thus not more than a neurological phenomenon. Development of the philosophical argument leads to parallels with artistic endeavor that is reflected on considering the technological advances which support it. Consequently, the unconventional tools devoid of thresholding pave the way for contemporary art which is free of outcome. This opens up many cans of worms of which the one of audio signal processing is focused on. This chapter thus concludes with a large pool of challenges that non-silicone systems might be able to tackle.

• Online Publication Date: Oct 26, 2022
• Publication Date: 2022
• Deposit Date: Dec 19, 2022
• Publicly Available Date: Oct 27, 2023
• Publisher: World Scientific Publishing
• Pages: 339-365
• Series Title: WSPC Book Series in Unconventional Computing
• Series ISSN: 2737-5218; 2737-520X
• Edition: 1st
• Book Title: Unconventional Computing, Arts, Philosophy
• Chapter Number: 20
• ISBN: 9789811257155
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1142/9789811257155_0020
• Keywords: Musical signal processing, Signal processing
• Public URL: https://uwe-repository.worktribe.com/output/10137679
• Publisher URL: https://www.worldscientific.com/doi/10.1142/9789811257155_0020
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