LoopJam: turning the dance floor into a collaborative instrumental map

Christian Frisson, Stéphane Dupont, Julien Leroy, Alexis Moinet, Thierry Ravet, Xavier Siebert, and Thierry Dutoit

Proceedings of the International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression

Abstract

This paper presents the LoopJam installation which allows participants to interact with a sound map using a 3D com-puter vision tracking system. The sound map results from similarity-based clustering of sounds. The playback of these sounds is controlled by the positions or gestures of partic-ipants tracked with a Kinect depth-sensing camera. The beat-inclined bodily movements of participants in the in-stallation are mapped to the tempo of played sounds, while the playback speed is synchronized by default among all sounds. We presented and tested an early version of the in-stallation to three exhibitions in Belgium, Italy and France. The reactions among participants ranged between curiosity and amusement.

Citation

Christian Frisson, Stéphane Dupont, Julien Leroy, Alexis Moinet, Thierry Ravet, Xavier Siebert, and Thierry Dutoit. 2012. LoopJam: turning the dance floor into a collaborative instrumental map. Proceedings of the International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression. DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.1178255

BibTeX Entry

@inproceedings{Frisson2012,
 abstract = {This paper presents the LoopJam installation which allows participants to interact with a sound map using a 3D com-puter vision tracking system. The sound map results from similarity-based clustering of sounds. The playback of these sounds is controlled by the positions or gestures of partic-ipants tracked with a Kinect depth-sensing camera. The beat-inclined bodily movements of participants in the in-stallation are mapped to the tempo of played sounds, while the playback speed is synchronized by default among all sounds. We presented and tested an early version of the in-stallation to three exhibitions in Belgium, Italy and France. The reactions among participants ranged between curiosity and amusement.},
 address = {Ann Arbor, Michigan},
 author = {Christian Frisson and St{\'e}phane Dupont and Julien Leroy and Alexis Moinet and Thierry Ravet and Xavier Siebert and Thierry Dutoit},
 booktitle = {Proceedings of the International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression},
 doi = {10.5281/zenodo.1178255},
 issn = {2220-4806},
 keywords = {Interactive music systems and retrieval, user interaction and interfaces, audio similarity, depth sensors},
 publisher = {University of Michigan},
 title = {LoopJam: turning the dance floor into a collaborative instrumental map},
 url = {http://www.nime.org/proceedings/2012/nime2012_260.pdf},
 year = {2012}
}