Collaborative Music

Collaborative Music Making Exhibit

Description: Create an interactive exhibit which demostrates a collaborative music production tool.  Such an exhibit could be a hack or mod of an existing technology application, such as Wii Music (Nintendo, 2008) or RjDj (2008); or it could be a brand new artifact.  Such exhibit could use anything from multi-touch screens to three-dimensional displays for output.  End result should describe an interface and navigation tool for a collaborative music production as a museum exhibit.

Design requirements:
* It must feature an innovative interface (no mouse or keyboard)
* It should visualize music in an original and compelling way (think, for instance, of music visualizations created with Processing by Robert Hodgin (below)
* It should allow multiple users to create the audiovisual experience in real-time.
* Must be feasible to be built.

Examples and Resources:

Wii Music: a free form music game for the Wii that simulates playing musical instruments using the Wii Remote, Wii Nunchuk, and the Wii Balance Board.  Here, the player uses both motions and button presses on the Wiimote and Nunchuks to control a band of up to six Miis to produce sounds and music. Additional information (videos, documentation) is available at http://www.wiimusic.com/

Robert Hodgin is working on innovative ways way to integrate lyrics into the visualizers using Processing.  http://flight404.com/blog/?p=111

Ample Designs is an online canvas to paint reactive music & visuals as a real-time artistic performance.  Different brushes can be painted causing visuals & sounds to appear. the mouse position determines the instrumental note while the further the mouse is moved, the more strokes are painted. http://www.ampledesign.co.uk/va/

RjDj is a music application for the iPhone. It uses sensory input to generate and control the music you are listening to. http://rjdj.me/what/

Electroplankton is an interactive music video game developed by the Japanese interactive media artist Toshio Iwai and published by Nintendo for the Nintendo DS handheld video game console. It was first released in Japan, and was later released in North America and Europe. This game allows the player to interact with animated plankton and create music through one of ten different plankton themed interfaces. http://www.nintendo.com/ds