Research

My research focuses on issues surrounding the design of performative interactions with technology. Currently, I am focused on 3 issues:

Skill: How can we design interactions where performers can develop skill over time?

Style: With digital devices, how can performers develop unique, personal and distinctive styles that are recognizable and different from those of other users?

Spectatorship: What do spectators perceive, understand and feel when watching other people perform with interactive systems?

Recent Publications

(see my CV for a complete list)

Journal Articles
• Gurevich, M., & Fyans, A.C. (2011). Digital musical interactions: Performer-system relationships and their perception by spectators. Organised Sound 16(2), 166-175.
• Gurevich, M. (2010). Guest editor’s note. Computer Music Journal 34(4),4-5.
• Gurevich, M., Marquez-Borbon, A., & Stapleton, P. (2010). Playing with constraints: Stylistic variation with a simple electronic instrument. Submitted to Computer Music Journal, under review.
• Chafe, C., Caceres, J. P., & Gurevich, M. (2010). Effect of temporal separation on synchronization in rhythmic performance. Perception 39(7), 982-992.

Refereed Conference Papers
• Gurevich, M., Donohoe, D., & Bertet, S. (2011). Ambisonic Spatialization for Networked Music Performance. In Proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Auditory Display (ICAD-2011).
• Marquez-Borbon, A., Gurevich, M., Fyans, A.C., & Stapleton, P. (2011). Designing Digital Musical Interactions in Experimental Contexts. In Proceedings of the Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression (pp. 373-376).
• Fyans, A.C., & Gurevich, M. (2011). Perceptions of Skill in Performances with Acoustic and Electronic Instruments. In Proceedings of the Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression (pp. 495-498).
• Gurevich, M., Stapleton, P., & Marquez-Borbon, A. (2010). Style and constraint in electronic musical instruments. In Proceedings of the Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression (pp. 106–111).
• Fyans, A.C., Gurevich, M., & Stapleton, P. (2010). Examining the spectator experience. In Proceedings of the Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression (pp. 451–454).
• Gurevich, M., Stapleton, P., & Bennett, P. (2009). Designing for style in new musical interactions. In Proceedings of the Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression (pp. 213–217).
• Fyans, A. C., Gurevich, M., & Stapleton, P. (2009). Where did it all go wrong? A model of error from the spectator’s perspective. In Proceedings of the Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression (pp. 171–172).
• Fyans, A. C., Gurevich, M., & Stapleton, P. (2009). Spectator understanding of error in performance. In Proceedings of the Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems Extended Abstracts (pp. 3955–3960).
• Gurevich, M., & Treviño, J. (2007). Expression and its discontent: Toward an ecology of musical creation. In Proceedings of the Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression (pp. 106–111).
• Gurevich, M. (2006). JamSpace: A networked real-time collaborative music environment. In Proceedings of the Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems Extended Abstracts (pp. 821–826).
• Gurevich, M., Chafe, C., Leslie, G., & Tyan, S. (2004). Simulation of networked ensemble performance with varying time delays: characterization of ensemble accuracy. In Proceedings of the 2004 International Computer Music Conference.