Smartphone-based Music Conducting

Yang Kyu Lim, and Woon Seung Yeo

Proceedings of the International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression

Abstract:

Smartphone-based music conducting is a convenient and effective approach to conducting practice that aims to overcome the practical limitations of traditional conducting practice and provide enhanced user experience compared to those of previous virtual conducting examples. This work introduces the v-Maestro, a smartphone application for music conducting. Powered by the Gyroscope of the device, the v-Maestro analyzes conducting motions that allows the user to not only control the tempo but also simulate ``cueing'' for different instruments. Results from user tests show that, in spite of certain ergonomic problems, new conducting practice with the v-Maestro is more satisfactory than traditional methods and has a strong potential as a conducting practice tool.

Citation:

Yang Kyu Lim, and Woon Seung Yeo. 2014. Smartphone-based Music Conducting. Proceedings of the International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression. DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.1178851

BibTeX Entry:

  @inproceedings{ylim2014,
 abstract = {Smartphone-based music conducting is a convenient and effective approach to conducting practice that aims to overcome the practical limitations of traditional conducting practice and provide enhanced user experience compared to those of previous virtual conducting examples. This work introduces the v-Maestro, a smartphone application for music conducting. Powered by the Gyroscope of the device, the v-Maestro analyzes conducting motions that allows the user to not only control the tempo but also simulate ``cueing'' for different instruments. Results from user tests show that, in spite of certain ergonomic problems, new conducting practice with the v-Maestro is more satisfactory than traditional methods and has a strong potential as a conducting practice tool.},
 address = {London, United Kingdom},
 author = {Yang Kyu Lim and Woon Seung Yeo},
 booktitle = {Proceedings of the International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression},
 doi = {10.5281/zenodo.1178851},
 issn = {2220-4806},
 month = {June},
 pages = {573--576},
 publisher = {Goldsmiths, University of London},
 title = {Smartphone-based Music Conducting},
 url = {http://www.nime.org/proceedings/2014/nime2014_281.pdf},
 year = {2014}
}