Clothesline as a Metaphor for a Musical Interface

Seunghun Kim, Luke K. Kim, Songhee Jeong, and Woon Seung Yeo

Proceedings of the International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression

Abstract:

In this paper, we discuss the use of the clothesline as ametaphor for designing a musical interface called Airer Choir. This interactive installation is based on the function ofan ordinary object that is not a traditional instrument, andhanging articles of clothing is literally the gesture to use theinterface. Based on this metaphor, a musical interface withhigh transparency was designed. Using the metaphor, weexplored the possibilities for recognizing of input gesturesand creating sonic events by mapping data to sound. Thus,four different types of Airer Choir were developed. By classifying the interfaces, we concluded that various musicalexpressions are possible by using the same metaphor.

Citation:

Seunghun Kim, Luke K. Kim, Songhee Jeong, and Woon Seung Yeo. 2011. Clothesline as a Metaphor for a Musical Interface. Proceedings of the International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression. DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.1178065

BibTeX Entry:

  @inproceedings{Kim2011,
 abstract = {In this paper, we discuss the use of the clothesline as ametaphor for designing a musical interface called Airer Choir. This interactive installation is based on the function ofan ordinary object that is not a traditional instrument, andhanging articles of clothing is literally the gesture to use theinterface. Based on this metaphor, a musical interface withhigh transparency was designed. Using the metaphor, weexplored the possibilities for recognizing of input gesturesand creating sonic events by mapping data to sound. Thus,four different types of Airer Choir were developed. By classifying the interfaces, we concluded that various musicalexpressions are possible by using the same metaphor.},
 address = {Oslo, Norway},
 author = {Kim, Seunghun and Kim, Luke K. and Jeong, Songhee and Yeo, Woon Seung},
 booktitle = {Proceedings of the International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression},
 doi = {10.5281/zenodo.1178065},
 issn = {2220-4806},
 keywords = {musical interface, metaphor, clothesline installation },
 pages = {60--63},
 title = {Clothesline as a Metaphor for a Musical Interface},
 url = {http://www.nime.org/proceedings/2011/nime2011_060.pdf},
 year = {2011}
}