PlaySoundGround : An Interactive Musical Playground

Michael St. Clair, and Sasha Leitman

Proceedings of the International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression

• Year: 2009
• Location: Pittsburgh, PA, United States
• Pages: 293–296
• Keywords: Real-time, Music, Playground, Interactive, Installation, Radical Collaboration, Play.
• DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.1177685 (Link to paper)
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Abstract:

We describe a novel transformation of a playground - merry-go-round, teeter-totter (also referred to as a see-saw), swings, and climbing structure – from its traditional purpose to a collaborative and interactive musical performance system by equipping key structures with sensors that communicate with a computer. A set of Max/ MSP patches translate the physical gestures of playground play into a variety of performer-selected musical mappings. In addition to the electro-acoustic interactivity, the climbing structure incorporates acoustic musical instruments.

Citation:

BibTeX Entry:

  @inproceedings{StClair2009,
 abstract = {We describe a novel transformation of a playground - merry-go-round, teeter-totter (also referred to as a see-saw), swings, and climbing structure – from its traditional purpose to a collaborative and interactive musical performance system by equipping key structures with sensors that communicate with a computer. A set of Max/ MSP patches translate the physical gestures of playground play into a variety of performer-selected musical mappings. In addition to the electro-acoustic interactivity, the climbing structure incorporates acoustic musical instruments.},
 address = {Pittsburgh, PA, United States},
 author = {St. Clair, Michael and Leitman, Sasha},
 booktitle = {Proceedings of the International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression},
 doi = {10.5281/zenodo.1177685},
 issn = {2220-4806},
 keywords = {Real-time, Music, Playground, Interactive, Installation, Radical Collaboration, Play.},
 pages = {293--296},
 title = {PlaySoundGround : An Interactive Musical Playground},
 url = {http://www.nime.org/proceedings/2009/nime2009_293.pdf},
 year = {2009}
}