Social music machine: crowdsourcing for composition & creativity

This poster describes a compositional technique that used crowd-sourced midi clips in order to develop a piece of music, which was later performed. This work in progress highlighted some of the issues facing the designers of systems that enable the ‘crowd’ to compose. INTRODUCTION Can the crowd...

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Main Authors: Chamberlain, Alan, De Roure, David, Willcox, Pip
Format: Conference or Workshop Item
Published: 2017
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Online Access:https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/48515/
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De Roure, David
Willcox, Pip
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description This poster describes a compositional technique that used crowd-sourced midi clips in order to develop a piece of music, which was later performed. This work in progress highlighted some of the issues facing the designers of systems that enable the ‘crowd’ to compose. INTRODUCTION Can the crowd get creative? And what sort of tools might be used to support this? These are the sorts of questions that we thought about when we initially started to think about these problems. Using software originally developed as part of an Experimental Digital Humanities [1] project, we started to wonder about how such software - “Numbers into Notes” [2] might work in the real world if multiple people used it in creative way, and what lessons might we learn from carrying out such an intervention.
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spelling nottingham-485152020-05-04T19:23:26Z https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/48515/ Social music machine: crowdsourcing for composition & creativity Chamberlain, Alan De Roure, David Willcox, Pip This poster describes a compositional technique that used crowd-sourced midi clips in order to develop a piece of music, which was later performed. This work in progress highlighted some of the issues facing the designers of systems that enable the ‘crowd’ to compose. INTRODUCTION Can the crowd get creative? And what sort of tools might be used to support this? These are the sorts of questions that we thought about when we initially started to think about these problems. Using software originally developed as part of an Experimental Digital Humanities [1] project, we started to wonder about how such software - “Numbers into Notes” [2] might work in the real world if multiple people used it in creative way, and what lessons might we learn from carrying out such an intervention. 2017-12-19 Conference or Workshop Item PeerReviewed Chamberlain, Alan, De Roure, David and Willcox, Pip (2017) Social music machine: crowdsourcing for composition & creativity. In: DMRN+12: Digital Music Research Network, Tuesday 19th December 2017, London, UK. Crowdsourcing HCI Creativity Music Composition Performance Interaction Social machine
spellingShingle Crowdsourcing
HCI
Creativity
Music
Composition
Performance
Interaction
Social machine
Chamberlain, Alan
De Roure, David
Willcox, Pip
Social music machine: crowdsourcing for composition & creativity
title Social music machine: crowdsourcing for composition & creativity
title_full Social music machine: crowdsourcing for composition & creativity
title_fullStr Social music machine: crowdsourcing for composition & creativity
title_full_unstemmed Social music machine: crowdsourcing for composition & creativity
title_short Social music machine: crowdsourcing for composition & creativity
title_sort social music machine: crowdsourcing for composition & creativity
topic Crowdsourcing
HCI
Creativity
Music
Composition
Performance
Interaction
Social machine
url https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/48515/