Abstract
ABSTRACT There is a current trend in the instrument design industry of scaling down physical dimensions, resulting in smaller and smaller ‘desktop’ instruments, but research conducted with large interfaces reveals the role of instrument size on music performance. Chaos Bells is a very large digital musical instrument designed with both artistic and analytical goals in mind: it is a probe into the effect of instrument size on performance, while also being a vehicle for the first author’s performance practice. Drawing on entanglement theories of HCI we supplement the findings of lab-based studies with Chaos Bells with new discoveries made by the first author when touring with Chaos Bells. This research elucidates the indirect influences of stakeholders on instrument design culture, and ways that taking a large instrument design approach can benefit designers of instruments of all sizes.
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