Toward Augmented Familiarity of the Audience with Digital Musical Instruments

Olivier Capra (1, 2) , Florent Berthaut (1, 2) , Laurent Grisoni (1, 2)

1 CRIStAL - Centre de Recherche en Informatique, Signal et Automatique de Lille - UMR 9189
2 MINT2 - Méthodes et outils pour l'Interaction à gestes

The diversity and complexity of Digital Musical Instruments often lead to a reduced appreciation of live performances by the audience. This can be linked to the lack of familiarity they have with the instruments. We propose to increase this familiarity thanks to a trans-disciplinary approach in which signals from both the musician and the audience are extracted, familiarity analyzed, and augmentations dynamically added to the instruments. We introduce a new decomposition of familiarity and the concept of correspondences between musical gestures and results. This paper is both a review of research that paves the way for the realization of a pipeline for augmented familiarity, and a call for future research on the identified challenges that remain before it can be implemented.

Mots clés: digital musical instrument; performance; familiarity; causality; augmentations; correspondences

Domaines: Interface homme-machine [cs.HC]; Informatique; Musique, musicologie et arts de la scène

Olivier Capra, Florent Berthaut, Laurent Grisoni. Toward Augmented Familiarity of the Audience with Digital Musical Instruments. International Symposium on Computer Music Multidisciplinary Research, Sep 2017, Matosinhos, Portugal. ⟨hal-01577953⟩