A Visualization Tool to Explore Interactive Sound Installations

Valérian Fraisse, Catherine Guastavino, and Marcelo M. Wanderley

Proceedings of the International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression

Abstract:

This paper presents a theoretical framework for describing interactive sound installations, along with an interactive database, on a web application, for visualizing various features of sound installations. A corpus of 195 interactive sound installations was reviewed to derive a taxonomy describing them across three perspectives: Artistic Intention, Interaction and System Design. A web application is provided to dynamically visualize and explore the corpus of sound installations using interactive charts (https://isi-database.herokuapp.com/). Our contribution is two-sided: we provide a theoretical framework to characterize interactive sound installations as well as a tool to inform sound artists and designers about up-to-date practices regarding interactive sound installations design.

Citation:

Valérian Fraisse, Catherine Guastavino, and Marcelo M. Wanderley. 2021. A Visualization Tool to Explore Interactive Sound Installations. Proceedings of the International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression. DOI: 10.21428/92fbeb44.4fd9089c

BibTeX Entry:

  @inproceedings{NIME21_53,
 abstract = {This paper presents a theoretical framework for describing interactive sound installations, along with an interactive database, on a web application, for visualizing various features of sound installations. A corpus of 195 interactive sound installations was reviewed to derive a taxonomy describing them across three perspectives: Artistic Intention, Interaction and System Design. A web application is provided to dynamically visualize and explore the corpus of sound installations using interactive charts (https://isi-database.herokuapp.com/). Our contribution is two-sided: we provide a theoretical framework to characterize interactive sound installations as well as a tool to inform sound artists and designers about up-to-date practices regarding interactive sound installations design.},
 address = {Shanghai, China},
 articleno = {53},
 author = {Fraisse, Valérian and Guastavino, Catherine and Wanderley, Marcelo M.},
 booktitle = {Proceedings of the International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression},
 doi = {10.21428/92fbeb44.4fd9089c},
 issn = {2220-4806},
 month = {June},
 presentation-video = {https://youtu.be/MtIVB7P3bs4},
 title = {A Visualization Tool to Explore Interactive Sound Installations},
 url = {https://nime.pubpub.org/pub/i1rx1t2e},
 year = {2021}
}