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Reference Information
Title: Ben Neill and Bill Jones: Posthorn
Authors: Ben Neill, Bill Jones
Presentation Venue: CHI 2010: 28th ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems; April 10-15, 2010; Atlanta, GA, USA
Summary
This paper discusses an interactive computer system implemented on an instrument Ben Neill (one of the researchers) made called a mutantrumpet. The mutantrumpet is a combination of three trumpets and one trombone and some electronics that allow for MIDI control and conversion. The paper also describes three programs that respond to someone playing the instrument in real time.
The first program, called LiSa, is a sampling program that allows Neill to extract samples and modify them through several digital signal processing functions. The second program, Ableton Live, allows for Neill to process the output from LiSa as well as modify MIDI sequences from the mutantrumpet. The third program, Modul8, runs on a separate computer and translates the MIDI data into real time video.
The authors emphasize that with this system a person can vary a composition, allowing for more sounds and more images on the real time video.
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For me this paper was a little harder to follow. At times they just seemed to be going on and on without really saying anything. I believe I followed the general idea but the paper kept saying how the different parts of the mutantrumpet “enable Neill to” do this or do that. It didn’t really explain how any of it would be done by someone who didn’t know how to work it and it didn’t really say how the different parts did anything aside from saying that it used a function or used some other program.
As far as future works go, I’d say they might need to make this more user friendly though it might already be. I’m not really sure. I thought the different videos it created were kind of interesting so they could improve upon that or they could make a similar prototype that works on a normal instrument rather than some hybrid one that only one person knows how to work.
I think this would be a really good idea however I wish the paper stated more of what it actually did for the user. Taking real time input from the instrument is an accomplishment in itself however.
ReplyDeleteOn my blog I mentionned how I felt like this paper was more geared towards expert users, and/or professionals. I'm not sure the authors conveyed the intention of making the system user-friendly.
ReplyDeleteI find this to be an interesting contrast to the paper I was assigned where the technology was being used to enhance the performance of an instrument the user already knows how to play. Here the user who doesn't know the instrument is enabled to play it by the computer.
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