The Planets

Max Meier, and Max Schranner

Proceedings of the International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression

Abstract:

‘The Planets’ combines a novel approach for algorithmic composition with new human-computer interaction paradigms and realistic painting techniques. The main inspiration for it was the composition ‘The Planets’ from Gustav Holst who portrayed each planet in our solar system with music. Our application allows to interactively compose music in real-time by arranging planet constellations on an interactive table. The music generation is controlled by painted miniatures of the planets and the sun which are detected by the table and supplemented with an additional graphical visualization, creating a unique audio-visual experience. A video of the application can be found in [1].

Citation:

Max Meier, and Max Schranner. 2010. The Planets. Proceedings of the International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression. DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.1177851

BibTeX Entry:

  @inproceedings{Meier2010,
 abstract = {‘The Planets’ combines a novel approach for algorithmic composition with new human-computer interaction paradigms and realistic painting techniques. The main inspiration for it was the composition ‘The Planets’ from Gustav Holst who portrayed each planet in our solar system with music. Our application allows to interactively compose music in real-time by arranging planet constellations on an interactive table. The music generation is controlled by painted miniatures of the planets and the sun which are detected by the table and supplemented with an additional graphical visualization, creating a unique audio-visual experience. A video of the application can be found in [1].},
 address = {Sydney, Australia},
 author = {Meier, Max and Schranner, Max},
 booktitle = {Proceedings of the International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression},
 doi = {10.5281/zenodo.1177851},
 issn = {2220-4806},
 keywords = {algorithmic composition, soft constraints, tangible interaction},
 pages = {501--504},
 title = {The Planets},
 url = {http://www.nime.org/proceedings/2010/nime2010_501.pdf},
 year = {2010}
}