Musink: composing music through augmented drawing

  • Authors:
  • Theophanis Tsandilas;Catherine Letondal;Wendy E. Mackay

  • Affiliations:
  • INRIA Saclay, Université Paris-Sud, Orsay, France;INRIA Saclay, Université Paris-Sud, Orsay, France;INRIA Saclay, Université Paris-Sud, Orsay, France

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
  • Year:
  • 2009

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Abstract

We focus on the creative use of paper in the music composition process, particularly the interaction between paper and end-user programming. When expressing musical ideas, composers draw in a precise way, not just sketch. Working in close collaboration with composers, we designed Musink to provide them with a smooth transition between paper drawings and OpenMusic, a flexible music composition tool. Musink's built-in recognizers handle common needs, such as scoping and annotation. Users can also define new gestures and associate them with their own or predefined software functions. Musink supports semi-structured, delayed interpretation and serves as a customizable gesture browser, giving composers significant freedom to create their own, individualized composition languages and to experiment with music, on-paper and on-line.