Abstract
Music jamming is an extremely difficult task for musical novices. Trying to extend this meaningful and highly enjoyable activity to a larger recipient group, we present WIJAM, a mobile application for an ad-hoc group of musical novices to perform improvisation along with a music master. In this “master-players” paradigm, the master offers a music backing, orchestrates the musical flow, and gives feedbacks to the players; the players improvise by tapping and sketching on their smartphones. We argue that this paradigm can be a significant contribution to the possibility of music playing by a group of novices with no instrumental training leading to decent musical results.
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 407-410 |
Number of pages | 4 |
Journal | Proceedings of the International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression |
Publication status | Published - 2014 |
Externally published | Yes |
Event | 14th International conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression, NIME 2014 - London, United Kingdom Duration: 30 Jun 2014 → 4 Jul 2014 |
Keywords
- Mobile music making
- Music collaboration
- Social improvisation