Open AccessScratch, Look & Listen: Improvisation and Digital DJ Interfaces
Author(s) -
Mark V. Campbell
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
critical studies in improvisation
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 1712-0624
DOI - 10.21083/csieci.v10i1.3071
Subject(s) - improvisation , creativity , scratch , multimedia , mode (computer interface) , digital audio , human–computer interaction , computer science , psychology , visual arts , art , telecommunications , social psychology , speech coding , audio signal , operating system
Since 2004, digital interfaces have become the dominate mode in which professional hip hop djs perform for their audiences. There are a number of benefits and drawbacks to utilizing digital interfaces, such as increased or decreased abilities to improvise. This essay explores the impacts of digital interfaces on the hip hop djs' abilities to improvise and future trajectories of sonic innovation and creativity.