Table M: Politics of Musical Interfaces: Politics of Arrhiytmia "Politics of Musical Interfaces: Ideologies and Digital Disenchantment" The debut of computers as digital music instruments triggered the production of digital interfaces for musical expression. Since then, musical interfaces or controllers have proliferated with every new electronic music style and novel technology available. They have took up varied idiosyncrasies, from experimental and D.I.Y. designs to the most standardized forms in commercial music. But more important for us, controllers show the ability to mediate musical expression not only through their ergonomics and functionalities, but also through certain cultural attitudes these interfaces seem to incorporate. As Manovich[1] asserts, “in cultural communication, interfaces are codes which rarely are transparent or simply neutral transport mechanisms”. + INFO: www.gredits.org/interfacepolitics/en/politics-of-musical-interfaces-ideologies-and-digital-disenchantment-3/

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