Point Line Piano

Jarosław Kapuściński, Marc Downie, and Paul Kaiser

Proceedings of the International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression

Abstract

Point Line Piano is a VR project that reimagines the composition, performance, and reception of piano music by fusing its modes of creating, playing, and listening. As you interact with it, your ears, eyes, and hands act in concert. You start by drawing lines freely in the space around you, sparking musical notes that are notched as points on the lines as you draw them. These notes quickly accumulate, forming distinct melodic phrases and rhythms, while the computer generates an intricate audiovisual dance all around you. The work enables rare spatial and full-body experience of abstraction. In a live concert setting it can also be used as an audiovisual instrument.

Citation

Jarosław Kapuściński, Marc Downie, and Paul Kaiser. 2025. Point Line Piano. Proceedings of the International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression. DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.17801028 [PDF]

BibTeX Entry

@inproceedings{nime2025_music_8,
 abstract = {Point Line Piano is a VR project that reimagines the composition, performance, and reception of piano music by fusing its modes of creating, playing, and listening. As you interact with it, your ears, eyes, and hands act in concert. You start by drawing lines freely in the space around you, sparking musical notes that are notched as points on the lines as you draw them. These notes quickly accumulate, forming distinct melodic phrases and rhythms, while the computer generates an intricate audiovisual dance all around you. The work enables rare spatial and full-body experience of abstraction. In a live concert setting it can also be used as an audiovisual instrument. },
 address = {Canberra, Australia},
 articleno = {8},
 author = {Jarosław Kapuściński and Marc Downie and Paul Kaiser},
 booktitle = {Proceedings of the International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression},
 doi = {10.5281/zenodo.17801028},
 editor = {Sophie Rose and Jos Mulder and Nicole Carroll},
 issn = {2220-4806},
 month = {June},
 note = {Installation},
 numpages = {2},
 pages = {25--26},
 presentation-video = {https://vimeo.com/938043123},
 title = {Point Line Piano},
 track = {Music},
 url = {http://nime.org/proceedings/2025/nime2025_music_8.pdf},
 urlsuppl1 = {http://nime.org/proceedings/2025/nime2025_music_8_file01.mp4},
 year = {2025}
}