The Third Room: A 3D Virtual Music Framework

Colin Honigman, Andrew Walton, and Ajay Kapur

Proceedings of the International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression

Abstract:

This paper describes a new framework for music creation using 3D audio andvisual techniques. It describes the Third Room, which uses a Kinect to placeusers in a virtual environment to interact with new instruments for musicalexpression. Users can also interact with smart objects, including the Ember(modified mbira digital interface) and the Fluid (a wireless six degrees offreedom and touch controller). This project also includes new techniques for 3Daudio connected to a 3D virtual space using multi-channel speakers anddistributed robotic instruments.

Citation:

Colin Honigman, Andrew Walton, and Ajay Kapur. 2013. The Third Room: A 3D Virtual Music Framework. Proceedings of the International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression. DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.1178556

BibTeX Entry:

  @inproceedings{Honigman2013,
 abstract = {This paper describes a new framework for music creation using 3D audio andvisual techniques. It describes the Third Room, which uses a Kinect to placeusers in a virtual environment to interact with new instruments for musicalexpression. Users can also interact with smart objects, including the Ember(modified mbira digital interface) and the Fluid (a wireless six degrees offreedom and touch controller). This project also includes new techniques for 3Daudio connected to a 3D virtual space using multi-channel speakers anddistributed robotic instruments.},
 address = {Daejeon, Republic of Korea},
 author = {Colin Honigman and Andrew Walton and Ajay Kapur},
 booktitle = {Proceedings of the International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression},
 doi = {10.5281/zenodo.1178556},
 issn = {2220-4806},
 keywords = {Kinect Camera, Third Space, Interface, Virtual Reality, Natural Interaction, Robotics, Arduino},
 month = {May},
 pages = {29--34},
 publisher = {Graduate School of Culture Technology, KAIST},
 title = {The Third Room: A {3D} Virtual Music Framework},
 url = {http://www.nime.org/proceedings/2013/nime2013_92.pdf},
 year = {2013}
}