Enabling Embodied Music-Making for Non-Musicians

Lucía Montesínos, Halfdan Hauch Jensen, and Anders Løvlie

Proceedings of the International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression

Abstract

We present a Research through Design exploration of the potential for using tangible and embodied interactions to enable active music experiences - musicking - for non-musicians. We present the Tubularium prototype, which aims to facilitate music-making to non-musicians by not requiring any initial skill while still eliciting agency and overall, providing a meaningful experience. We present the design of the prototype and the features implemented and reflect on insights from a public event in which the prototype was trialed.

Citation

Lucía Montesínos, Halfdan Hauch Jensen, and Anders Løvlie. 2025. Enabling Embodied Music-Making for Non-Musicians. Proceedings of the International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression. DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.15699662 [PDF]

BibTeX Entry

@article{nime2025_77,
 abstract = {We present a Research through Design exploration of the potential for using tangible and embodied interactions to enable active music experiences - musicking - for non-musicians. We present the Tubularium prototype, which aims to facilitate music-making to non-musicians by not requiring any initial skill while still eliciting agency and overall, providing a meaningful experience. We present the design of the prototype and the features implemented and reflect on insights from a public event in which the prototype was trialed.},
 address = {Canberra, Australia},
 articleno = {77},
 author = {Lucía Montesínos and Halfdan Hauch Jensen and Anders Løvlie},
 booktitle = {Proceedings of the International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression},
 doi = {10.5281/zenodo.15699662},
 editor = {Doga Cavdir and Florent Berthaut},
 issn = {2220-4806},
 month = {June},
 numpages = {7},
 pages = {530--536},
 title = {Enabling Embodied Music-Making for Non-Musicians},
 track = {Paper},
 url = {http://nime.org/proceedings/2025/nime2025_77.pdf},
 year = {2025}
}