Title :
Mood Conductor: Emotion-Driven Interactive Music Performance
Author :
Fazekas, Gyorgy ; Barthet, Mathieu ; Sandler, Mark B.
Author_Institution :
Sch. of Electron. Eng. & Comput. Sci., Queen Mary Univ. of London, London, UK
Abstract :
Mood Conductor is a system that allows the audience to interact with stage performers to create directed improvisations. The term "conductor" is used metaphorically. Rather than directing a musical performance by way of visible gestures, spectators act as conductors by communicating emotional intentions to the performers through our web-based smartphone-friendly Mood Conductor app. Performers receive the audience\´s directions via a visual feedback system operating in real-time. Emotions are represented by coloured blobs in a two-dimensional space (vertical dimension: arousal or excitation; horizontal dimension: valence or pleasantness). The size of the "emotion blobs" indicates the number of spectators that have selected the corresponding emotions at a given time.
Keywords :
behavioural sciences computing; emotion recognition; interactive systems; music; Web based smartphone; coloured blobs; directed improvisations; emotion driven interactive music performance; emotional intentions; mood conductor; musical performance; visible gestures; visual feedback system; Computational modeling; Conductors; Educational institutions; Mood; Music; Real-time systems; Visualization;
Conference_Titel :
Affective Computing and Intelligent Interaction (ACII), 2013 Humaine Association Conference on
Conference_Location :
Geneva
DOI :
10.1109/ACII.2013.165