These questions are(intuitively) presented in a metaphorical creative writing style as intimate fragments of the artist’s imagination. The modified boots are explained from an electronic music/ instrument design point of view, and a dialectic is set up between the technical existence of the work and the philosophical questions it asks. A socio- political milieu is constructed in which to locate the work: Ephemeral Gumboots is presented via description, analysis, and as poetry. Essential (Cagean) considerations surface too: whether music is an art form and how composition relates to music. The concept of process, which is at the heart of interactive art and music, is also located philosophically and historically. The notion of interactivity, its history, development, social meaning and the technology that has enabled it become objects for interrogation.

These fields create a frame in which I present mycreative project Ephemeral Gumboots, a hybrid media artwork/musical instrument that takes South African Gumboot dance and extends it as an interface into an electronic music-making system. This paper explores a dialogue between art and technology in the fields of interactive art,interface design and interactive music.

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