Many musical interfaces have used the musical conductor metaphor, allowing users to control the expressive aspects of a performance by imitating the gestures of conductors. In most of them, the rules to control these expressive aspects are predefined and users have to adapt to them. Other works have studied conductors' gestures in relation to the performance of the orchestra. The goal of this study is to analyze, following the path initiated by this latter kind of works, how simple motion capture descriptors can explain the relationship between the loudness of a given performance and the way in which different subjects move when asked to impersonate the conductor of that performance. Twenty-five subjects were asked to impersonate the conductor of three classical music fragments while listening to them. The results of different linear regression models with motion capture descriptors as explanatory variables show that, by studying how descriptors correlate to loudness differently among subjects, different tendencies can be found and exploited to design models that better adjust to their expectations.
JF - Proceedings of the International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression PB - Goldsmiths, University of London CY - London, United Kingdom UR - http://nime2014.org/proceedings/papers/464_paper.pdf ER - TY - CONF T1 - Innovating the Classical Music Experience in the PHENICX Project: Use Cases and Initial User Feedback T2 - 1st International Workshop on Interactive Content Consumption (WSICC) at EuroITV 2013 Y1 - 2013 A1 - Cynthia C. S. Liem A1 - Ron van der Sterren A1 - Marcel van Tilburg A1 - Álvaro Sarasúa A1 - Juan J. Bosch A1 - Jordi Janer A1 - Mark S. Melenhorst A1 - Emilia Gómez A1 - Alan Hanjalic KW - interactivity KW - multimedia information systems KW - multimodality KW - music information retrieval KW - performing arts KW - social networks KW - user studies AB -The FP7 PHENICX project focuses on creating a new digital classical concert experience, improving the accessibility of classical music concert performances by enhancing and enriching them in novel digital ways, In this paper, we present the project’s foreseen use cases. Subsequently, we summarize initial use case feedback from two different user groups. Despite the early stage of the project, the feedback already gives important insight into real-world considerations to make for interactive music content consumption solutions.
JF - 1st International Workshop on Interactive Content Consumption (WSICC) at EuroITV 2013 CY - Como, Italy ER -