Design principles and user interfaces of Erkki Kurenniemi's electronic musical instruments of the 1960's and 1970's

descriptionPublicationkeyboard_double_arrow_right Article , Conference object 01 Jan 2007Publisher:ACM PressJournal:Proceedings of the 7th international conference on New interfaces for musical expression - NIME '07

Authors: Ojanen, Mikko; Suominen, Jari; Kallio, Titti; Lassfolk, Kai;

doi: 10.1145/1279740.1279756 , 10.5281/zenodo.1177210 , 10.5281/zenodo.1177211

Design principles and user interfaces of Erkki Kurenniemi's electronic musical instruments of the 1960's and 1970's

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Abstract

This paper presents a line of historic electronic musical instruments designed by Erkki Kurenniemi in the 1960's and1970's. Kurenniemi's instruments were influenced by digitallogic and an experimental attitude towards user interfacedesign. The paper presents an overview of Kurenniemi'sinstruments and a detailed description of selected devices.Emphasis is put on user interface issues such as unconventional interactive real-time control and programming methods.

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University of Helsinki
Finland
TeliaSonera (Sweden)
Sweden

Keywords

Kurenniemi, Erkki, Digelius Electronics Finland, 1970s, 1960s, electronic musical instruments, Digital Musical Instrument, DIMI, Finland

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