The Drummer : a Collaborative Musical Interface with Mobility

Andrea Bianchi, and Woon Seung Yeo

Proceedings of the International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression

• Year: 2009
• Location: Pittsburgh, PA, United States
• Pages: 316–319
• Keywords: collaborative interface, multiplayer, musical expression, musical control, game control, Nintendo DS.
• DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.1177483 (Link to paper)
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Abstract:

It has been shown that collaborative musical interfaces encourage novice users to explore the sound space and promote their participation as music performers. Nevertheless, such interfaces are generally physically situated and can limit the possibility of movements on the stage, a critical factor in live music performance. In this paper we introduce the Drummer, a networked digital musical interface that allows multiple performers to design and play drum kits simultaneously while, at the same time, keeping their ability to freely move on the stage. The system consists of multiple Nintendo DS clients with an intuitive, user-configurable interface and a server computer which plays drum sounds. The Drummer Machine, a small piece of hardware to augment the performance of the Drummer, is also introduced.

Citation:

BibTeX Entry:

  @inproceedings{Bianchi2009,
 abstract = {It has been shown that collaborative musical interfaces encourage novice users to explore the sound space and promote their participation as music performers. Nevertheless, such interfaces are generally physically situated and can limit the possibility of movements on the stage, a critical factor in live music performance. In this paper we introduce the Drummer, a networked digital musical interface that allows multiple performers to design and play drum kits simultaneously while, at the same time, keeping their ability to freely move on the stage. The system consists of multiple Nintendo DS clients with an intuitive, user-configurable interface and a server computer which plays drum sounds. The Drummer Machine, a small piece of hardware to augment the performance of the Drummer, is also introduced. },
 address = {Pittsburgh, PA, United States},
 author = {Bianchi, Andrea and Yeo, Woon Seung},
 booktitle = {Proceedings of the International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression},
 doi = {10.5281/zenodo.1177483},
 issn = {2220-4806},
 keywords = {collaborative interface, multiplayer, musical expression, musical control, game control, Nintendo DS.},
 pages = {316--319},
 title = {The Drummer : a Collaborative Musical Interface with Mobility},
 url = {http://www.nime.org/proceedings/2009/nime2009_316.pdf},
 year = {2009}
}