Project Number
- 310
Title
- Block Jam
Description
- Collaborative, tangible, and graphical musical interface using blocks for sequencing and phrasing.
Contact
- Henry Newton-Dunn
Affiliation
- Sony Computer Science Laboratories, Inc.
Address
- 3-14-13 Takanawa Muse Building
- Higashigotanda, Shinagawa-ku
- Tokyo 141-0022 Japan
- Higashigotanda, Shinagawa-ku
- henry@csl.sony.co.jp
WWW
Year
- 2002
Reference
- SIGGRAPH 2002 Conference Abstracts and Applications
Project Details
- "Block Jam is a musical interface controlled by the arrangement of 24 tangible blocks. By positioning the blocks [into different configurations], musical phrases and sequences are created, allowing multiple users to play and collaborate."
- "Block Jam takes advantage of both graphical and tangible user interfaces. Each block has a visual display and two modes of input, clickable and gestural. Each block contains a sound group that can be chosen via the gestural input. The clickable input changes a block functionality (e.g., start or stop a sequence). Thus musically complex and engaging compositions can be rapidly assembled."
- This project views music as a dynamic structure that can be shared as an experience within a participative group and extended community (through remote networks).
Sight
- graphical LED matrix display
Sound
- embedded speaker system, musical fragments
Touch
- physical block elements with tangible interfaces and interconnects
Smell
Taste
Other
Emergence
- 1 - Innovation, Custom, Research
Intent
- 1 - Technology (innovation, machine)
Primary
- 105 - emerging technology
Secondary
- 203 - interactive paradigm, technique
Remarks
Last updated: 5 Jul 2002
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