Vuzik: Music Creation and Visualization on an Interactive Surface
Aura Pon, Junko Ichino, Ehud Sharlin, David Eagle, and Sheelagh Carpendale
Vuzik is an interface designed to empower people to make computer music using painting gestures and visual representations of music on a vertical interactive surface. We designed Vuzik to be simple and playful enough for a child to use, yet also to have capabilities to afford meaningful, complex musical experiences for more experienced musicians. We hope that the Vuzik composing interface could open up new creative possibilities for composers and artists that would be engaging for the audience as well.
Vuzik's latest application was in a collaborative interface called ChoirMob, developed with Nicolas d'Alessandro and Johnty Wang at the University of British Columbia. Vuzik was used to compose for and conduct an ensemble of digital musical instruments as way to explore the composition process using visualization and large interactive displays and how such an interface can serve as an open platform central control device for controlling various digital musical instruments.
See Vuzik in action, as an educational interface and standalone composing tool:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=No02sy2DmPshttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wjRsbeiIIrMhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m3MdPQ6kCPM
Stay tuned for links to videos, as well as more information at this link:
http://utouch.cpsc.ucalgary.ca/pmwiki.php?n=Projects.Main
Please see our papers for more information:
Aura Pon, Junko Ichino, Ehud Sharlin, David Eagle, and Sheelagh Carpendale
Vuzik is an interface designed to empower people to make computer music using painting gestures and visual representations of music on a vertical interactive surface. We designed Vuzik to be simple and playful enough for a child to use, yet also to have capabilities to afford meaningful, complex musical experiences for more experienced musicians. We hope that the Vuzik composing interface could open up new creative possibilities for composers and artists that would be engaging for the audience as well.
Vuzik's latest application was in a collaborative interface called ChoirMob, developed with Nicolas d'Alessandro and Johnty Wang at the University of British Columbia. Vuzik was used to compose for and conduct an ensemble of digital musical instruments as way to explore the composition process using visualization and large interactive displays and how such an interface can serve as an open platform central control device for controlling various digital musical instruments.
See Vuzik in action, as an educational interface and standalone composing tool:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=No02sy2DmPshttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wjRsbeiIIrMhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m3MdPQ6kCPM
Stay tuned for links to videos, as well as more information at this link:
http://utouch.cpsc.ucalgary.ca/pmwiki.php?n=Projects.Main
Please see our papers for more information:
- Pon, A., Eagle, D., Sharlin, E. "Affective Sound Synthesis: Considerations in Designing Emotionally-Engaging Timbres for Computer Music," Banff Spring Noise Conference, May 2011.
- Pon, A., Ichino, J., Sharlin, E., Eagle, D., Carpendale, S. "Graspable Music and Vuzik: Music Learning and Creativity using an Interactive Surface." Child Computer Interaction: 2nd Workshop on UI and Educational Pedagogy, CHI 2011.
- Pon, A. Ichino, J., Eagle, D., Sharlin, E., Carpendale, S. “Vuzik: Music Visualization and Creation on an Interactive Surface.” Extended Abstract and Poster Presentation, Audio Mostly 2011.
- Pon, J. Ichino, E. Sharlin, D. Eagle, and S. Carpendale, “Vuzik: An Interactive Surface Application for Music Visualization and Creation,” Technical report, Computer Science Department, University of Calgary, 201-1010-22, August 2011.http://dspace.ucalgary.ca/handle/1880/48723
- Pon, A., Sharlin, E., Eagle, D., “An Affective Music Recommender System,” Technical report, Computer Science Department, University of Calgary, 2010-988-37, December 22, 2010, https://dspace.ucalgary.ca/handle/1880/48319
- Pon, A., Eagle, D., Sharlin, E. "Affective Sound Synthesis: Considerations in Designing Emotionally-Engaging Timbres for Computer Music," Banff Spring Noise Conference, May 2011.
