Martin, CharlesGardner, HenryEngland, DavidSchiphorst, TheclaBryan-Kinns, Nick2024-04-152024-04-15Martin, C., Gardner, H. (2016). A Percussion-Focussed Approach to Preserving Touch-Screen Improvisation. In: England, D., Schiphorst, T., Bryan-Kinns, N. (eds) Curating the Digital. Springer Series on Cultural Computing. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-28722-5_5978-3-319-28720-12195-9056http://hdl.handle.net/1885/316737Musical performances with touch-screen devices can be recorded by capturing a log of touch interactions. This object can serve as an archive or as a basis for other representations of the musical work. This chapter presents a protocol for recording ensemble touch-screen performances and details the processes for generating visualisations, gestural classifications, and graphical scores from these logs. Our experience of using these new representations to study a series of improvised ensemble performances with iPad-based digital musical instruments leads us to conclude that these new-media artefacts allow unique insights into ensemble interactions, comprehensive archiving of improvised performances, and the potential for re-synthesis into new performances and artworks.application/pdfen-AU© 2016 Springer International Publishing AGcomputer musictouchscreenimprovisationdata201610.1007/978-3-319-28722-5_5