This article explores how computation opens up possibilities for new musical practices to emerge through technology design. Using the notion of the cultural probe as a lens, we consider the digital musical instrument as an experimental device that yields findings across the fields of music, sociology and acoustics. As part of an artistic-research methodology, the instrumental object as a probe is offered as a means for artists to answer questions that are often formulated outside semantic language. This article considers how computation plays an important role in the authors’ personal performance practices in different ways, which reflect the changed mode-of-being of new musical instruments and our individual and collective relations with them.

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作为探针的数字乐器：计算如何改变乐器的存在模式

本文探讨了计算如何通过技术设计为新的音乐实践开辟可能性。使用的概念文化探索作为一个镜头，我们将数字乐器视为一种实验设备，可以在音乐、社会学和声学领域产生发现。作为艺术研究方法的一部分，作为探针的器乐对象被提供为艺术家回答通常在语义语言之外提出的问题的一种手段。本文探讨了计算如何以不同的方式在作者的个人演奏实践中发挥重要作用，这反映了新乐器的存在模式的变化以及我们与它们的个人和集体关系。