Distributed Interactive Audio Devices: Creative strategies and audience responses to novel musical interaction scenarios

Symposium:

• ISEA2015: 21st International Symposium on Electronic Art

• Networked and Mobile Sound

• Distributed Interactive Audio Devices: Creative strategies and audience responses to novel musical interaction scenarios

• Oliver Bown
• Lian Loke
• Sam Ferguson
• Dagmar Reinhardt

• (Short paper)

  Keywords: Internet of Things, Spatial Audio, Sensor Network User Interfaces, Sonic Art.

  With the rise of ubiquitous computing, comes new possibilities for experiencing audio, visual and tactile media in distributed and situated forms, disrupting modes of media experience that have been relatively stable for decades. We present the Distributed Interactive Audio Devices (DIADs) project, a set of experimental interventions to explore future ubiquitous computing design spaces in which electronic sound is presented as distributed, interactive and portable. The DIAD system is intended for creative sound and music performance and interaction, yet it does not conform to traditional concepts of musical performance, suggesting instead a fusion of music performance and other forms of collaborative digital interaction. We describe the thinking behind the project, the state of the DIAD system’s technical development, and our experiences working with userinteraction in lab-based and public performance scenarios.

• Full text (PDF) p. 604-607

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