POLISphone: Creating and performing with a flexible soundmap

POLISphone is a software for music performance, inspired on the popular idea of “soundmap”. Unlike most soundmaps, its main aim is to provide a way to easily create original soundmaps and perform with it. It also targets to be a versatile interface, both visual and sound wise, and to induce a sense of instrumentality. In this paper, the authors describe its implementation and, in addition, considerations are made regarding its use and performativity potential, based on fieldwork.