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

• Year: 2012
• Location: Ann Arbor, Michigan
• Keywords: Interactive music systems and retrieval, user interaction and interfaces, audio similarity, depth sensors
• DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.1178255 (Link to paper)
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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:

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}
}