Frontiers: Expanding Musical Imagination With Audience Participation

Marcelo Gimenes, Pierre-Emmanuel Largeron, and Eduardo Miranda

Proceedings of the International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression

Abstract:

This paper introduces Performance Without Borders and Embodied iSound, two sound installations performed at the 2016 Peninsula Arts Contemporary Music Festival at Plymouth University. Sharing in common the use of smartphones to afford real-time audience participation, two bespoke distributed computer systems (Sherwell and Levinsky Music, respectively). Whilst the first one implements a cloud-based voting system, the second implements movement tracking and iBeacon-based indoor-positioning to control the choice of soundtracks, audio synthesis, and surround sound positioning, among other parameters. The general concepts of the installations, in particular design and interactive possibilities afforded by the computer systems are presented.

Citation:

Marcelo Gimenes, Pierre-Emmanuel Largeron, and Eduardo Miranda. 2016. Frontiers: Expanding Musical Imagination With Audience Participation. Proceedings of the International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression. DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.1176020

BibTeX Entry:

  @inproceedings{Gimenes2016,
 abstract = {This paper introduces Performance Without Borders and Embodied
iSound, two sound installations performed at the 2016 Peninsula Arts Contemporary
Music Festival at Plymouth University. Sharing in common the use of smartphones
to afford real-time audience participation, two bespoke distributed computer
systems (Sherwell and Levinsky Music, respectively). Whilst the first one
implements a cloud-based voting system, the second implements movement tracking
and iBeacon-based indoor-positioning to control the choice of soundtracks, audio
synthesis, and surround sound positioning, among other parameters. The general
concepts of the installations, in particular design and interactive possibilities
afforded by the computer systems are presented.},
 address = {Brisbane, Australia},
 author = {Marcelo Gimenes and Pierre-Emmanuel Largeron and Eduardo Miranda},
 booktitle = {Proceedings of the International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression},
 doi = {10.5281/zenodo.1176020},
 isbn = {978-1-925455-13-7},
 issn = {2220-4806},
 pages = {350--354},
 publisher = {Queensland Conservatorium Griffith University},
 title = {Frontiers: Expanding Musical Imagination With Audience Participation},
 track = {Papers},
 url = {http://www.nime.org/proceedings/2016/nime2016_paper0068.pdf},
 year = {2016}
}