A thing becomes a musical instrument by virtue of its use in a social context, a use of which its initial intended design (if it had one) forms only a part: sometimes a very small part.

Drawing on the notion of the ‘performance ecosystem’ this papersuggests that instrument designers/makers working with digital technologies might fruitfully attend further to the social contexts/constructs that characterise every level of musicking. It looks at the emergent, situated co-development of player, instrument and environment, suggesting that humans habitually use instruments to sense out, test and probe the possibilities of self-other relations in dynamic, mutually-engaging, and often playful and improvised behaviours.¹

中文翻译：

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使乐器具有音乐性的纠结：重新发现社交性

事物由于在社会环境中的使用而成为一种乐器，其最初的预期设计（如果有的话）仅构成一部分的使用：有时只是很小的一部分。

本文基于“性能生态系统”的概念，建议使用数字技术的乐器设计者/制造商可能会更富有成果地参与表征音乐音乐各个层次的社交环境/结构。它着眼于玩家，乐器和环境的共同发展，表明人类习惯性地使用乐器来感知，测试和探究在动态的，相互参与的，经常是嬉戏的和即兴的行为中自我-他人关系的可能性。 。^1个