abstract: Wittgenstein’s claim: anytime something is seen, it is necessarily seen as something, forms the philosophical foundation of this research. I synthesize theories and philosophies from Simondon, Maturana, Varela, Wittgenstein, Pye, Sennett, and Reddy in a research process I identify as a paradigm construction project. My personal studio practice of inventing experiential media systems is a key part of this research and illustrates, with practical examples, my philosophical arguments from a range of points of observation. I see media systems as technical objects, and see technical objects as structurally determined systems, in which the structure of the system determines its organization. I identify making, the process of determining structure, as a form of structural coupling and see structural coupling as a means of knowing material. I introduce my theory of conceptual plurifunctionality as an extension to Simondon’s theory. Aspects of materiality are presented as a means of seeing material and immaterial systems, including cultural systems. I seek to answer the questions: How is structure seen as determining the organization of systems, and making seen as a process in which the resulting structures of technical objects and the maker are co-determined? How might an understanding of structure and organization be applied to the invention of contemporary experiential media systems? / Dissertation/Thesis / Doctoral Dissertation Media Arts and Sciences 2015

Orientador: Jonatas Manzolli / Dissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Instituto de Artes / Made available in DSpace on 2018-08-14T15:30:27Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Carrilho_FrederickdeJesus_M.pdf: 3673415 bytes, checksum: 516b28dcd827d35a6155906c6577271f (MD5) Previous issue date: 2009 / Resumo: A presente dissertação tem como objetivo principal a apresentação de técnicas composicionais desenvolvidas pelo autor com a utilização de métodos estocásticos e distribuição do material gerado em camadas e blocos como ferramentas no auxílio de geração de eventos musicais parametrizados. Para isto, se fez um levantamento e uma discussão dos processos composicionais relacionados ao escopo deste trabalho como os do compositor lannis Xenakis. Além das técnicas e das obras musicais resultantes deste processo, uma contribuição original é o programa XNKS, criado e desenvolvido durante a pesquisa e usado nas composições aqui apresentadas. Particularmente apresentamos o sistema composicional utilizado pelo autor na elaboração da obra EVENTVM III a qual é descrita em detalhes neste trabalho / Abstract: The present thesis has as main objective the presentation of compositional techniques developed by the author with the use of random methods and distribution of the material generated in layers and blocks as tools in the aid of generation of parameterized musical events. For this, it was made a survey and a discussion of related compositional processes of this work as that one of the composer Iannis Xenakis. In addition to the techniques and the resultant musical pieces of this process, an original contribution is program XNKS, created and developed during the research and in the compositions presented here. Particularly, we present the compositional system used by the author in the elaboration of piece EVENTVM III which is described in details in this work / Mestrado / Mestre em Música

Few and Far Between is a music composition for violoncello and live electronics. The project consists of software that uses video data from a webcam to control interactive audio in real time to manipulate audio processing and multichannel diffusion.