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Running up Blueberry Hill: prototyping whole body interaction in harmony space

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Tangible and embedded interaction archive
Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Tangible and Embedded Interaction table of contents

Cambridge, United Kingdom

SESSION: New perspectives and theories on tangibility table of contents

Pages 93-98

Year of Publication: 2009

ISBN:978-1-60558-493-5

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Simon Holland	The Open University, Milton Keynes, UK
Paul Marshall	The Open University, Milton Keynes, UK
Jon Bird	The Open University, Milton Keynes, UK
Sheep Dalton	The Open University, Milton Keynes, UK
Richard Morris	The Open University, Milton Keynes, UK
Nadia Pantidi	The Open University, Milton Keynes, UK
Yvonne Rogers	The Open University, Milton Keynes, UK
Andy Clark	The University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK

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: Microsoft Research (USA)
: Nokia (Finland)
: Microsoft Research Cambridge (UK)
: Microsoft Hardware (USA)

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ACM New York, NY, USA

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ABSTRACT

Musical harmony is considered to be one of the most abstract and technically difficult parts of music. It is generally taught formally via abstract, domain-specific concepts, principles, rules and heuristics. By contrast, when harmony is represented using an existing interactive desktop tool, Harmony Space, a new, parsimonious, but equivalently expressive, unified level of description emerges. This focuses not on abstract concepts, but on concrete locations, objects, areas and trajectories.

This paper presents a design study of a prototype version of Harmony Space driven by whole body navigation, and characterizes the new opportunities presented for the principled manipulation of chord sequences and bass lines. These include: deeper engagement and directness; rich physical cues for memory and reflection, embodied engagement with rhythmic time constraints; hands which are free for other simultaneous activities (such as playing a traditional instrument); and qualitatively new possibilities for collaborative use.

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