Idiomaticity, Composition and the AI-terity Instrument
Following the development of a common framework for performance practices of new musical instrumens, we composed the piece Uncertainty Etude #2, idiomatically reflecting the autonomous properties and the audio synthesis features in the AI-terity instrument. In this composition, we considered the instrument’s affordances for interaction to be contextualised as part of idiomatic patterns which influence the musical patterns of the composition. Similar influences exist in traditional instruments, digital musical instruments, or software languages where the idiomatic patterns affect the exploration that characterises much of the musical instrument.