LoopJam

Demo

Abstract

The pur­pose of the Loop­Jam instal­la­tion is to gather peo­ple to col­lab­o­ra­tively build a live musi­cal atmos­phere. A two-dimensional “sound map” is cre­ated by our soft­ware which ana­lyzes sounds, as well as musi­cal loops, and groups them by sim­i­lar­ity. Musi­cal loops are chunks of music con­tent (typ­i­cally a few musi­cal mea­sures long) that cre­ate rhyth­mic music when played repeat­edly. Wan­der­ing through the instal­la­tion, each par­tic­i­pant explores this sound map and acti­vates sounds by sim­ple ges­tures such as rais­ing the hand, clap­ping or step­ping. The play­back of each sound is syn­chro­nized by our soft­ware, allow­ing a col­lab­o­ra­tive audio com­po­si­tion shared between all par­tic­i­pants. Net­work­ing tech­nolo­gies are used for the com­mu­ni­ca­tion between the 3D cam­eras track­ing the par­tic­i­pant motions and the music and visual ren­der­ing com­po­nents. Net­work com­mu­ni­ca­tion can hence poten­tially be used to cre­ate inter­ac­tions between dis­tant installations.

Doc­u­ments

  • [2011,inproceedings] bib­tex Go to document
    Fris­son Chris­t­ian, Dupont Stéphane, Leroy Julien, Moinet Alexis, Ravet Thierry, Siebert Xavier, « Loop­Jam: a col­lab­o­ra­tive musi­cal map on the dance floor », in « QPSR of the nume­di­art research pro­gram », 2011, pp. 37–40.
    @INPROCEEDINGS{numediart_2011_s14_p4_report,
      author = {Christian Frisson and St\'{e}phane Dupont and Julien Leroy and Alexis Moinet and Thierry Ravet and Xavier Siebert},
      title = {LoopJam: a collaborative musical map on the dance floor},
      booktitle = {{QPSR} of the numediart research program},
      year = {2011},
      editor = {Thierry Dutoit},
      volume = {4},
      number = {2},
      pages = {37-40},
      month = {4},
      organization = {numediart Research Program on Digital Art Technologies},
      url = {http://www.numediart.org/docs/numediart_2011_s14_p4_report.pdf}
    }

Events

If you want to cre­ate audio loops libraries for Loop­Jam or host a Loop­Jam instal­la­tion, please con­tact Chris­t­ian Fris­son.