Codex Saqqa a
FRANCESCO ARDAN DAL RÌ, Conse a o y o Music F. A. Bonpo i, I aly
FRANCESCA ZANGHELLINI, Conse a o y o Music C. Mon e e di, I aly
Addi ional Key Wo ds and Ph ases: li e coding, pe o mance ecosys em, sha ed agency
ACM Re e ence Fo ma :
1 PROGRAM NOTES
Codex Saqqa a is a cycle o i e semi-imp o ised musical pieces o li e coding and elec ic iolin. He e, o du a ion
easons, we p esen a sho exce p . The in e ac ion be ween he wo pe o me s akes place h ough a sys em ha
allows he iolinis o eco d and o e dub up o i e samples in eal- ime, which a e hen p ocessed and o ganized in o
s uc u es by he li e code . In his way, he wo musicians in e ac wi h each o he ’s musical space, aking on di e en
musical oles du ing he pe o mance, such as solois s, o ches a o s o accompanis s. Gi en i s ex empo aneous na u e,
he piece is composed om-sc a ch, ollowing a se ies o mac o-s uc u es de e mined be o ehand. This submission
accompanies a pape ega ding he sys em used, along wi h some e lec ions ha eme ged du ing he ehea sals o
his pe o mance.
Fig. 1. A snippe o he pe o mance.
Licensed unde a C ea i e Commons A ibu ion 4.0 In e na ional License (CC BY 4.0). Copy igh emains wi h he au ho (s).
F ancesco A dan Dal Rì and F ancesca Zanghellini. 2023. Codex Saqqa a. 1, 1 (June 2023), 2 pages.
Music P oceedings o he In e na ional Con e ence on New In e aces o Musical Exp ession
NIME’23, May 31 - June 2, 2023, Mexico Ci y, Mexico
2 F ancesco A dan Dal Rì and F ancesca Zanghellini
2 PROJECT DESCRIPTION
This p ojec is o med by F ancesco A dan Dal Rì - Re u n_Nihil (li e coding) and F ancesca Zanghellini (elec ic iolin).
Bo h musicians ha e a s ong backg ound in con empo a y music and hey a e used o pe o ming oge he in li e
elec onics and imp o isa ional con ex s. Wi h his p ojec , hey would like o u he explo e bo h he possibili ies
o co-c ea ion and sha ed agency o e ed by no el echnological means, bo h he possible in e ac ions be ween wo
di e en musical p ac ices. As such, he in e ac i e ecosys em used in his pe o mance has been de eloped h ough
a ious ehea sals, explo ing di e en musical si ua ions, a he end o which hey discussed hei pe spec i e, hei
pe o ma i e s a egies, and he a o dances/cons ain s o he ecosys em.
3 PERFORMANCE NOTES
Un o una ely, we will no be able o a end he in-p esence con e ence due o geog aphical dis ance and lack o unding.
As such, in he nex sec ion, we p o ide a ideo o ou pe o mance.
4 MEDIA LINKS
•Video: h ps://www.you ube.com/wa ch? =DeXHBE2wFgg& ea u e=you u.be
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
We would like o hank Raul Masu o he cons an help, he TOPLAP I alia communi y o suppo , and Luca Po celluzzi
o ilming ou pe o mance.
ETHICAL STANDARDS
The sys ems used in his submission ha e been de eloped using FLOSS. The code is open-sou ce and eely a ailable a
h ps://gi hub.com/ e u n-nihil/Li e_Coding/ ee/main/Duo and can be easily adap ed o anyone o use i , wi hou he
explici need o buying speci ic ha dwa e o ope a ing complex mods on adi ional musical ins umen s. Fu he mo e,
we decla e no con lic o in e es .
