TOUCHtr4ck: democratic collaborative music

  • Authors:
  • Anna Xambó;Robin Laney;Chris Dobbyn

  • Affiliations:
  • The Open University, Milton Keynes, United Kingdom;The Open University, Milton Keynes, United Kingdom;The Open University, Milton Keynes, United Kingdom

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the fifth international conference on Tangible, embedded, and embodied interaction
  • Year:
  • 2010

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Abstract

When electronic musicians compose collaboratively, they typically use their own single-user musical controllers. It may, therefore, be useful to develop novel controllers that support collaborative workflows and democratic principles. After describing the design principles for developing such controllers, we present TOUCHtr4ck, a prototype multi-touch system designed to facilitate such democratic relationships. Informal testing has revealed that this approach does facilitate democratic and collaborative music making, and can produce creative musical results.