InHands: Improvisation for Mobile Phones

Koray Tahiroğlu

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

• Year: 2012
• Location: Ann Arbor, Michigan, U.S.A.

Abstract:

Program notes: InHands, an audiovisual real-time improvisation for mobile phones, explores alternative options for musical interactions with two mobile instruments in live performances. In this improvisation piece, sound output of each mobile phone instrument becomes a sound input for the other instrument; to be processed further with an act of responding immediately and spontaneously. Granular synthesis module captures audio in real-time and creates the grains based on the texture of the sounds. Magnitude, roll and pitch values of the acceleration are mapped to the control parameters. In the control layer of Sub-synthesis module, the change in direction of a touch position is tracked on the mobile surface and the distance of the same touch position to 4 certain points on the touchscreen is used as a source for creating frequency values. This mapping model generates 4 control parameters throughout 2 dimensional input layers. Hannah Drayson created the abstract visual-layers of this piece. Composer(s) Credits: Instrumentalist(s) Credits: Koray Tahiroğlu (mobile phones) Artist(s) Biography: Koray Tahiroğlu is a musician, postdoctoral researcher and lecturer in the Department of Media, Aalto University. He practices art as a researcher focusing on embodied approaches to sonic interaction in participative music experience, as well as a performer of live electronic music. He conducted an artistic research with a focus on studying and practicing human musical interaction. Tahiroğlu has completed the degree of Doctor of Arts with the dissertation entitled "Interactive Performance Systems: Experimenting with Human Musical Interaction" after its public examination in 2008. He developed interactive performance systems and experimental musical instruments, which were used in his live performances. Since 2004, he has been also teaching workshops and courses introducing artistic strategies and methodologies for creating computational art works. Tahiroğlu has performed experimental music in collaboration as well as in solo performances in Europe and North America. Concert Venue and Time: Necto, Tuesday May 22, 9:00pm

Citation:

BibTeX Entry:

  @incollection{nime2012-music-Tahiroglu2012,
 abstract = {Program notes:

\emph{InHands}, an audiovisual real-time improvisation for mobile phones, explores alternative options for musical interactions with two mobile instruments in live performances. In this improvisation piece, sound output of each mobile phone instrument becomes a sound input for the other instrument; to be processed further with an act of responding immediately and spontaneously. Granular synthesis module captures audio in real-time and creates the grains based on the texture of the sounds. Magnitude, roll and pitch values of the acceleration are mapped to the control parameters.  In the control layer of Sub-synthesis module, the change in direction of a touch position is tracked on the mobile surface and the distance of the same touch position to 4 certain points on the touchscreen is used as a source for creating frequency values. This mapping model generates 4 control parameters throughout 2 dimensional input layers. Hannah Drayson created the abstract visual-layers of this piece.

Composer(s) Credits:

Instrumentalist(s) Credits:

Koray Tahiro\u{g}lu (mobile phones)

Artist(s) Biography:

Koray Tahiro\u{g}lu is a musician, postdoctoral researcher and lecturer in the Department of Media, Aalto University. He practices art as a researcher focusing on embodied approaches to sonic interaction in participative music experience, as well as a performer of live electronic music. He conducted an artistic research with a focus on studying and practicing human musical interaction. Tahiro\u{g}lu has completed the degree of Doctor of Arts with the dissertation entitled "Interactive Performance Systems: Experimenting with Human Musical Interaction" after its public examination in 2008. He developed interactive performance systems and experimental musical instruments, which were used in his live performances. Since 2004, he has been also teaching workshops and courses introducing artistic strategies and methodologies for creating computational art works. Tahiro\u{g}lu has performed experimental music in collaboration as well as in solo performances in Europe and North America.

Concert Venue and Time: Necto, Tuesday May 22, 9:00pm},
 address = {Ann Arbor, Michigan, U.S.A.},
 author = {Koray Tahiro\u{g}lu},
 booktitle = {Music Proceedings of the International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression},
 day = {21-23},
 editor = {Georg Essl and Brent Gillespie and Michael Gurevich and Sile O'Modhrain},
 month = {May},
 publisher = {Electrical Engineering \& Computer Science and Performing Arts Technology, University of Michigan},
 title = {InHands: Improvisation for Mobile Phones},
 year = {2012}
}