Interactive music 3.0: empowering people to participate musically inside nightclubs

  • Authors:
  • Yago de Quay

  • Affiliations:
  • Laboratório Multimédia, FEUP, Universidade do Porto, Porto, Portugal

  • Venue:
  • CMMR'11 Proceedings of the 8th international conference on Speech, Sound and Music Processing: embracing research in India
  • Year:
  • 2011

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Abstract

Nightclubs are powerhouses in western culture for social listening and dancing to music. Here, mostly digital, pre-composed tunes are selected, mixed and played by a person called Disc Jockey. In another digital arena, the internet, a revolution is changing how people connect to each other and making every one a potential vocal agent of an invisible network that is slowly extending beyond their homes. This change is helping improve accessibility, learning, democracy and science, but music--protected by culture of broadcast not participation--remains untouched. This paper explains a project called Interactive Music 3.0 that is revisiting the role of the DJ and experimenting with a multi-disciplinary approach to foster participative musical expression inside nightclubs.