beacon : Embodied Sound Media Environment for Socio-Musical Interaction

Kenji Suzuki, Miho Kyoya, Takahiro Kamatani, and Toshiaki Uchiyama

Proceedings of the International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression

Abstract:

This research aims to develop a novel instrument for sociomusical interaction where a number of participants can produce sounds by feet in collaboration with each other. Thedeveloped instrument, beacon, is regarded as embodied soundmedia product that will provide an interactive environmentaround it. The beacon produces laser beams lying on theground and rotating. Audio sounds are then produced whenthe beams pass individual performer's foot. As the performers are able to control the pitch and sound length accordingto the foot location and angles facing the instrument, theperformer's body motion and foot behavior can be translated into sound and music in an intuitive manner.

Citation:

Kenji Suzuki, Miho Kyoya, Takahiro Kamatani, and Toshiaki Uchiyama. 2008. beacon : Embodied Sound Media Environment for Socio-Musical Interaction. Proceedings of the International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression. DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.1179633

BibTeX Entry:

  @inproceedings{Suzuki2008,
 abstract = {This research aims to develop a novel instrument for sociomusical interaction where a number of participants can produce sounds by feet in collaboration with each other. Thedeveloped instrument, beacon, is regarded as embodied soundmedia product that will provide an interactive environmentaround it. The beacon produces laser beams lying on theground and rotating. Audio sounds are then produced whenthe beams pass individual performer's foot. As the performers are able to control the pitch and sound length accordingto the foot location and angles facing the instrument, theperformer's body motion and foot behavior can be translated into sound and music in an intuitive manner.},
 address = {Genoa, Italy},
 author = {Suzuki, Kenji and Kyoya, Miho and Kamatani, Takahiro and Uchiyama, Toshiaki},
 booktitle = {Proceedings of the International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression},
 doi = {10.5281/zenodo.1179633},
 issn = {2220-4806},
 keywords = {Embodied sound media, Hyper-instrument, Laser beams },
 pages = {360--361},
 title = {beacon : Embodied Sound Media Environment for Socio-Musical Interaction},
 url = {http://www.nime.org/proceedings/2008/nime2008_360.pdf},
 year = {2008}
}