UC San Diego

This thesis reviews the current literature for instrumental gesture and digital musical instruments. It then elaborates on the gestures of electronic and computer music in the studio and as a result of algorithmic procedures as well as briefly review the composer- performer-listener model of music production. This is followed by a brief history of performance and the concept of 'live' electronic music, from which a theory is derived whereby computer music is incorporating the body as its primary means of expression, elaborating on its perceptual impacts