This project can be framed as a value discovery exercise acknowledging the breadth of perspectives different communities might have in relation to musical instruments and interactions.
Musicians active in different contexts were invited to imagine and build not-yet-existent musical instruments, thus exploiting physical making as a different form of thinking. The outcomes of this design fiction workshop revealed many sources of influence such as cultural background, instrumental training and music technology expertise.
A project candidly inspired by Joel Ryan's As If By Magic writing and Kristina Andersen's Magic Machines workshops.
See this research page on my PhD work at the Augmented Instruments Laboratory - Centre for Digital Music - QMUL.
