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Analysing the digiscore corpus: the PACMMAN framework

Year: 2025
Type: conference-paper
Abstract: This research reconceives digital scores through a multi-dimensional sensory lens: the PACMMAN framework. In doing so, digital scores are positioned as interactive, embodied , and rich medium. The study explores the digital score as a dynamic, co-creative system that reshapes musical meaning through real-time interaction, phenomenolog-ical engagement, and multisensory integration. By synthesizing insights from experimental performance contexts, it reveals how digital scores function as responsive, algorith-mic entities that foster collaborative meaning-making between musicians and technological systems. Key themes include the score's transformation into an interactive , sentient collaborator; its phenomenological presence through gestural and spatialized interfaces; and its capacity for multisensory expression, blending visuals, hap-tics, and sound. The composer's role shifts from authoritative author to system designer, structuring emergent, im-provisatory frameworks that balance algorithmic processes with performer agency. Interdisciplinary integration dissolves boundaries between notation, movement, and multi-media, while socio-political and neurodiverse perspectives highlight the score's potential for inclusivity and cultural resonance. Ultimately, this research proposes an ecological model of musicking, where performers, algorithms, and environments co-create within an entangled network. The digital score becomes an active participant in a fluid, process-oriented practice, challenging hierarchical structures and redefining musical presence as a collective, exploratory act. This PACMMAN framework not only reimagines music scores future but also expands the very conception of digital musicking as a living, evolving dialogue between human and non-human agents.
Author: Vear, Craig
Language: English
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W7112622111
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