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

• Year: 2014
• Location: London, United Kingdom
• Pages: 407–410
• DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.1178746 (Link to paper)
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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:

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}
}