Matt Morgan

Date of Award

2014

Document Type

Thesis

Degree Name

Bachelors

Department

Humanities

First Advisor

Dancigers, Mark

Keywords

Music, Technology, Humanity

Area of Concentration

Music

Abstract

This essay is a supplement to the one-of-a-kind experience of myPOD: Exploring the Rhythmic Vessel. The myPOD experience offers the user an opportunity to explore the conventionally cloudy convergence of vast concepts, most notably within the realms of humanity, technology, and music. This experience invites the user to interact intercorporeally with the technological body of myPOD and to step into an immersive sensory playground in which musical connections can be formed by the user between humans and robots. The user explores the musicality of bodies, both biological and technological. This essay places the work into a larger context, drawing inspiration and citation from the ideas of a large range of subjectivities, from Plato to Kaku. The framework of the project facilitates user agency and discretion and encourages the user to recognize and embrace the continually complex co-evolutionary relationship humans have with technology, the tool and the organism.

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