CABOTO: A Graphic-Based Interactive System for Composing and Performing Electronic Music

Riccardo Marogna

Proceedings of the International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression

Abstract:

CABOTO is an interactive system for live performance and composition. A graphic score sketched on paper is read by a computer vision system. The graphic elements are scanned following a symbolic-raw hybrid approach, that is, they are recognised and classified according to their shapes but also scanned as waveforms and optical signals. All this information is mapped into the synthesis engine, which implements different kind of synthesis techniques for different shapes. In CABOTO the score is viewed as a cartographic map explored by some navigators. These navigators traverse the score in a semi-autonomous way, scanning the graphic elements found along their paths. The system tries to challenge the boundaries between the concepts of composition, score, performance, instrument, since the musical result will depend both on the composed score and the way the navigators will traverse it during the live performance.

Citation:

Riccardo Marogna. 2018. CABOTO: A Graphic-Based Interactive System for Composing and Performing Electronic Music. Proceedings of the International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression. DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.1302671

BibTeX Entry:

  @inproceedings{Marogna2018,
 abstract = {CABOTO is an interactive system for live performance and composition. A graphic score sketched on paper is read by a computer vision system. The graphic elements are scanned following a symbolic-raw hybrid approach, that is, they are recognised and classified according to their shapes  but also scanned as waveforms and optical signals. All this information is mapped into the synthesis engine, which implements different kind of synthesis techniques for different shapes. In CABOTO the score is viewed as a cartographic map explored by some navigators. These navigators traverse the score in a semi-autonomous way, scanning the graphic elements found along their paths. The system tries to challenge the boundaries between the concepts of composition, score, performance, instrument, since the musical result will depend both on the composed score and the way the navigators will traverse it during the live performance. },
 address = {Blacksburg, Virginia, USA},
 author = {Riccardo Marogna},
 booktitle = {Proceedings of the International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression},
 doi = {10.5281/zenodo.1302671},
 editor = {Luke Dahl, Douglas Bowman, Thomas Martin},
 isbn = {978-1-949373-99-8},
 issn = {2220-4806},
 month = {June},
 pages = {37--42},
 publisher = {Virginia Tech},
 title = {CABOTO: A Graphic-Based Interactive System for Composing and Performing Electronic Music},
 url = {http://www.nime.org/proceedings/2018/nime2018_paper0010.pdf},
 year = {2018}
}