MDPE.10:4.4 - Jason Barnes and a robotic prosthesis

Barnes, each prosthesis, and Barnes-with-that-prosthesis have different capabilities. A useful capability account distinguishes Barnes’s bodily and musical capability; device sensing, control, actuation, grip, and response; combined drumming or piano Work; engineering Work by the team; and Barnes’s practice and co-adaptation.

Repeated public performances support later use under their conditions. They do not make device configurations equivalent or establish that faster or autonomous strikes provide expressive control, endurance, piano transfer, or cultural adoption.