WIJAM: A Mobile Collaborative Improvisation Platform under Master-players Paradigm

Jun-qi Deng, Francis Chi Moon Lau, Ho-Cheung Ng, Yu-Kwong Kwok, Hung-Kwan Chen, and Yu-heng Liu

Proceedings of the International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression

Abstract

Music jamming is an extremely difficult task for musical novices. Trying to extend this meaningful activity, which can be highly enjoyable, to a larger recipient group, we present WIJAM, a mobile application for an ad-hoc group of musical novices to perform improvisation along with a music master. In this ``master-players'' paradigm, the master offers a music backing, orchestrates the musical flow, and gives feedbacks to the players; the players improvise by tapping and sketching on their smartphones. We believe that this paradigm can be a significant contribution to the possibility of music playing by a group of novices with no instrumental training leading to decent musical results.

Citation

Jun-qi Deng, Francis Chi Moon Lau, Ho-Cheung Ng, Yu-Kwong Kwok, Hung-Kwan Chen, and Yu-heng Liu. 2014. WIJAM: A Mobile Collaborative Improvisation Platform under Master-players Paradigm. Proceedings of the International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression. DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.1178746

BibTeX Entry

@inproceedings{jdeng2014,
 abstract = {Music jamming is an extremely difficult task for musical novices. Trying to extend this meaningful activity, which can be highly enjoyable, to a larger recipient group, we present WIJAM, a mobile application for an ad-hoc group of musical novices to perform improvisation along with a music master. In this ``master-players'' paradigm, the master offers a music backing, orchestrates the musical flow, and gives feedbacks to the players; the players improvise by tapping and sketching on their smartphones. We believe that this paradigm can be a significant contribution to the possibility of music playing by a group of novices with no instrumental training leading to decent musical results.},
 address = {London, United Kingdom},
 author = {Jun-qi Deng and Francis Chi Moon Lau and Ho-Cheung Ng and Yu-Kwong Kwok and Hung-Kwan Chen and Yu-heng Liu},
 booktitle = {Proceedings of the International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression},
 doi = {10.5281/zenodo.1178746},
 issn = {2220-4806},
 month = {June},
 pages = {407--410},
 publisher = {Goldsmiths, University of London},
 title = {WIJAM: A Mobile Collaborative Improvisation Platform under Master-players Paradigm},
 url = {http://www.nime.org/proceedings/2014/nime2014_284.pdf},
 year = {2014}
}