Evaluation of an Interactive Music Performance System in the Context of Irish Traditional Dance Music

Marco Amerotti, Bob L. T. Sturm, Steve Benford, Hugo Maruri-Aguilar, and Craig Vear

Proceedings of the International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression

Abstract:

We present a preliminary evaluation of an interactive, real-time, and co-creative performance system for Irish Traditional Dance music. We focus on how this musical partnership is experienced by a human musician performing with it in four aspects: enjoyability, musicality, humanness and responsiveness. Our preliminary study with seven traditional musicians reveals that they find playing with the system to be enjoyable, and appreciated its musicality; but they scored its humanness and responsiveness less highly. These findings suggest that such real-time performance systems might bring an enjoyable "otherness" to musical performance, even for traditional forms of music. Finally, we discuss experimental considerations for a future study involving more participants.

Citation:

Marco Amerotti, Bob L. T. Sturm, Steve Benford, Hugo Maruri-Aguilar, and Craig Vear. 2024. Evaluation of an Interactive Music Performance System in the Context of Irish Traditional Dance Music. Proceedings of the International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression. DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.13904812

BibTeX Entry:

  @article{nime2024_23,
 abstract = {We present a preliminary evaluation of an interactive, real-time, and co-creative performance system for Irish Traditional Dance music. We focus on how this musical partnership is experienced by a human musician performing with it in four aspects: enjoyability, musicality, humanness and responsiveness. Our preliminary study with seven traditional musicians reveals that they find playing with the system to be enjoyable, and appreciated its musicality; but they scored its humanness and responsiveness less highly. These findings suggest that such real-time performance systems might bring an enjoyable "otherness" to musical performance, even for traditional forms of music. Finally, we discuss experimental considerations for a future study involving more participants.},
 address = {Utrecht, Netherlands},
 articleno = {23},
 author = {Marco Amerotti and Bob L. T.  Sturm and Steve Benford and Hugo Maruri-Aguilar and Craig Vear},
 booktitle = {Proceedings of the International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression},
 doi = {10.5281/zenodo.13904812},
 editor = {S M Astrid Bin and Courtney N. Reed},
 issn = {2220-4806},
 month = {September},
 numpages = {5},
 pages = {149--153},
 presentation-video = {https://youtu.be/t_uSNj_QUaQ?si=KSVGYMjsUvgSkonO},
 title = {Evaluation of an Interactive Music Performance System in the Context of Irish Traditional Dance Music},
 track = {Papers},
 url = {http://nime.org/proceedings/2024/nime2024_23.pdf},
 year = {2024}
}