精讀:Ergomimetic,身體帶著舊技能走進新樂器
Thor Magnusson, Sonic Writing: Technologies of Material, Symbolic, and Signal Inscriptions (2019)
"These skills are typically ergomimetic; they are reused motor patterns that might come from a different field, and can easily be applied in making music."
PSW 譯:「這些技能通常是『擬肢動』(ergomimetic)的:它們是從別的領域挪用來的動作模式,很容易被套用來做音樂。」(p.175)
你在一個新樂器上覺得「上手」,往往不是天生適合,是身體已經在別的地方練過這組動作。介面設計如果只認得某些「別的地方」練出來的動作(鋼琴指法、電玩手把、鍵盤打字),就已經把另一群身體排除在「上手」之外。