TY - GEN
T1 - Exploring social mobile music with tiny touch-screen performances
AU - Martin, Charles P.
AU - Torresen, Jim
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2017 Charles P. Martin et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
PY - 2017
Y1 - 2017
N2 - Touch-screen musical performance has become commonplace since the widespread adoption of mobile devices such as smartphones and tablets. However, mobile digital musical instruments are rarely designed to emphasise collaborative musical creation, particularly when it occurs between performers who are separated in space and time. In this article, we introduce an app that enables users to perform together asynchronously. The app takes inspiration from popular social media applications, such as a timeline of contributions from other users, deliberately constrained creative contributions, and the concept of a reply, to emphasise frequent and casual musical performance. Users' touch-screen performances are automatically uploaded for others to play back and add reply performances which are layered as musical parts. We describe the motivations, design, and early experiences with this app and discuss how musical performance and collaboration could form a part of social media interactions.
AB - Touch-screen musical performance has become commonplace since the widespread adoption of mobile devices such as smartphones and tablets. However, mobile digital musical instruments are rarely designed to emphasise collaborative musical creation, particularly when it occurs between performers who are separated in space and time. In this article, we introduce an app that enables users to perform together asynchronously. The app takes inspiration from popular social media applications, such as a timeline of contributions from other users, deliberately constrained creative contributions, and the concept of a reply, to emphasise frequent and casual musical performance. Users' touch-screen performances are automatically uploaded for others to play back and add reply performances which are layered as musical parts. We describe the motivations, design, and early experiences with this app and discuss how musical performance and collaboration could form a part of social media interactions.
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M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85074914871
T3 - Proceedings of the 14th Sound and Music Computing Conference 2017, SMC 2017
SP - 175
EP - 180
BT - Proceedings of the 14th Sound and Music Computing Conference 2017, SMC 2017
A2 - Lokki, Tapio
A2 - Patynen, Jukka
A2 - Valimaki, Vesa
PB - Aalto University
T2 - 14th Sound and Music Computing Conference, SMC 2017
Y2 - 5 July 2017 through 8 July 2017
ER -