MicroJam: An App for Sharing Tiny Touch-Screen Performances
Charles Martin, and Jim Torresen
Proceedings of the International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression
- Year: 2017
- Location: Copenhagen, Denmark
- Pages: 495–496
- DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.1176334 (Link to paper)
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Abstract:
MicroJam is a mobile app for sharing tiny touch-screen performances. Mobile applications that streamline creativity and social interaction have enabled a very broad audience to develop their own creative practices. While these apps have been very successful in visual arts (particularly photography), the idea of social music-making has not had such a broad impact. MicroJam includes several novel performance concepts intended to engage the casual music maker and inspired by current trends in social creativity support tools. Touch-screen performances are limited to five seconds, instrument settings are posed as sonic ``filters'', and past performances are arranged as a timeline with replies and layers. These features of MicroJam encourage users not only to perform music more frequently, but to engage with others in impromptu ensemble music making.
Citation:
Charles Martin, and Jim Torresen. 2017. MicroJam: An App for Sharing Tiny Touch-Screen Performances. Proceedings of the International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression. DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.1176334BibTeX Entry:
@inproceedings{cmartin2017, abstract = {MicroJam is a mobile app for sharing tiny touch-screen performances. Mobile applications that streamline creativity and social interaction have enabled a very broad audience to develop their own creative practices. While these apps have been very successful in visual arts (particularly photography), the idea of social music-making has not had such a broad impact. MicroJam includes several novel performance concepts intended to engage the casual music maker and inspired by current trends in social creativity support tools. Touch-screen performances are limited to five seconds, instrument settings are posed as sonic ``filters'', and past performances are arranged as a timeline with replies and layers. These features of MicroJam encourage users not only to perform music more frequently, but to engage with others in impromptu ensemble music making.}, address = {Copenhagen, Denmark}, author = {Charles Martin and Jim Torresen}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression}, doi = {10.5281/zenodo.1176334}, issn = {2220-4806}, pages = {495--496}, publisher = {Aalborg University Copenhagen}, title = {MicroJam: An App for Sharing Tiny Touch-Screen Performances}, url = {http://www.nime.org/proceedings/2017/nime2017_paper0096.pdf}, year = {2017} }