Digital Musical Instruments in the Digital Fabrication Age

This presentation is related to digital musical instrument design and composition in the era personal digital fabrication. Currently, the third industrial revolution and the maker culture is changing the model of production and distribution towards a customised, personal, local fabrication. Creative coding, interaction design and digital fabrication offer an open access medium for the new generation of composers, to develop their creative ideas and produce sonic artworks that manifest them self both physically and digitally. Turning data into sound and turning data into things (that make sound) is the topic of this presentation.