Title :

The Effect of Visualisation Level and Situational Visibility in Co-located Digital Musical Ensembles

Author(s) :

Berthaut, Florent [Auteur]
Centre de Recherche en Informatique, Signal et Automatique de Lille - UMR 9189 [CRIStAL]
Méthodes et outils pour l'Interaction à gestes [MINT2]
Dahl, Luke [Auteur]
University of Virginia

Conference title :

New Interfaces for Musical Expression

City :

Auckland

Country :

Nouvelle-Zélande

Start date of the conference :

2022-06-28

HAL domain(s) :

Informatique [cs]/Son [cs.SD]
Informatique [cs]/Interface homme-machine [cs.HC]
Sciences de l'Homme et Société/Musique, musicologie et arts de la scène

English abstract : [en]

Digital Musical Instruments (DMIs) offer new opportunities for collaboration, such as exchanging sounds or sharing controls between musicians. However, in the context of spontaneous and heterogeneous orchestras, such as ...
Show more >Digital Musical Instruments (DMIs) offer new opportunities for collaboration, such as exchanging sounds or sharing controls between musicians. However, in the context of spontaneous and heterogeneous orchestras, such as jam sessions, collective music-making may become challenging due to the diversity and complexity of the DMIs and the musicians' unfamiliarity with the others' instruments. In particular, the potential lack of visibility into each musician's respective contribution to the sound they hear, i.e. who is playing what, might impede their capacity to play together. In this paper, we propose to augment each instrument in a digital orchestra with visual feedback extracted in real-time from the instrument's activity, in order to increase this awareness. We present the results of a user study in which we investigate the influence of visualisation level and situational visibility during short improvisations by groups of three musicians. Our results suggest that internal visualisations of all instruments displayed close to each musician's instrument provide the best awareness.Show less >

Language :

Anglais

Peer reviewed article :

Oui

Audience :

Internationale

Popular science :

Non

Collections :

• Centre de Recherche en Informatique, Signal et Automatique de Lille (CRIStAL) - UMR 9189

Source :

Harvested from HAL