Music-Dance with acoustic Feedback

Çağrı Erdem, and Katja Schia

Installation Proceedings of the International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression

• Year: 2023
• Location: Mexico City, Mexico
• Article Number: 1130
• DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.11194802 (Link to paper)
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Abstract:

Imagine entering a room with dimmed lights and moving around without knowing how to control the acoustic feedback loops. You may need to bend your body or contract yourself to tame the loops that can escalate very quickly. The system details are presented in a related paper submission for this year’s NIME, entitled ``Music--Dance with Acoustic Feedback: An Exploratory Study on Embodiment and Agency.'' Briefly, participants of this interactive installation step into a room alone, knowing they can create acoustic feedback loops by changing their proximity between the lavalier microphone mounted on their head and the loudspeakers asymmetrically placed in a reverberant room. They are given two Myo sensor bands that capture each forearm's muscle activity and orientation, with which they can control the sound parameters of the feedback loops. In addition, muscle contractions & relaxations of the participants are also mapped to color parameters projected in the room as the primary light source. The visuals essentially comprise solid colors aimed at providing the participant with a more immersive experience with respect to their covert bodily processes.

Citation:

BibTeX Entry:

  @article{nime23-installations-1130,
 abstract = {Imagine entering a room with dimmed lights and moving around without knowing how to control the acoustic feedback loops. You may need to bend your body or contract yourself to tame the loops that can escalate very quickly. The system details are presented in a related paper submission for this year’s NIME, entitled ``Music--Dance with Acoustic Feedback: An Exploratory Study on Embodiment and Agency.'' Briefly, participants of this interactive installation step into a room alone, knowing they can create acoustic feedback loops by changing their proximity between the lavalier microphone mounted on their head and the loudspeakers asymmetrically placed in a reverberant room. They are given two Myo sensor bands that capture each forearm's muscle activity and orientation, with which they can control the sound parameters of the feedback loops. In addition, muscle contractions \& relaxations of the participants are also mapped to color parameters projected in the room as the primary light source. The visuals essentially comprise solid colors aimed at providing the participant with a more immersive experience with respect to their covert bodily processes.},
 address = {Mexico City, Mexico},
 articleno = {1130},
 author = {Çağrı Erdem and Katja Schia},
 booktitle = {Installation Proceedings of the International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression},
 doi = {10.5281/zenodo.11194802},
 editor = {Salvador Chavez and Tito Rivas},
 month = {May},
 title = {Music-Dance with acoustic Feedback},
 url = {https://www.nime.org/proceedings/2023/nime2023_installations_1130.pdf},
 year = {2023}
}