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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| author | Chamberlain, Alan 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/ |