Please note: This event took place in May 2019
Dom Brown is a creative technologist focused on music interaction design and research. During his South West for Creative Technology fellowship, he has been exploring questions around using AR/VR in the design of mid-air musical instruments and investigating how AR/VR can be used as a visual feedback modality for mid-air musical instruments.
In a digital musical interaction, the sound response to a performer’s actions is not mediated through plucking strings or blowing through tubes, but through digital interfaces and computer code. This allows relationships between actions and sounds to be changed easily and rapidly, even during live performance. This process of action-sound relationship design opens up a new space of creativity in music-making by allowing end-users to participate in the design of musical interactions, blurring distinctions between instrument designers and performers.
Dom will discuss how an end-user music interaction design space can provide engaging, immersive experiences in VR.