Abstract
ABSTRACTWe present a study and reflection about the role and use of smartphone technology for a large-scale musical performance involving audience participation. We evaluated a full design and development process from initial ideation to a final performance concept. We found that the smartphone became the design tool, the technical device and the musical instrument at the same time. As a technical device that uses ultrasound communication as interaction technique, the smartphone became inspirational for the artist's creative work. In aiming to support the artist, we observed pervasive importance of retaining artistic control to realise artistic intent. This concerns the co-design process and the resulting concept of audience participation and supports recommendations for such participatory work.
Highlights
Smartphones have become a key device for large-scale audience participation in live music both for scientific studies as well as performing artists, e.g. Hirabayashi and Eshima (2015), Wu, Zhang, Bryan-Kinns, and Barthet (2017), Lee, Willette, Koutra, and Lasecki (2019) or Matuszewski, Schnell, and Bevilacqua (2019).We contribute to this area of research and build on different promising, but not yet fully studied concepts in the area of large-scale audience participation using smartphones.In this study, we design, develop, and evaluate Poème Numérique, which is both, a new performance concept and smartphone application for technology-mediated audience participation (TMAP) in live music
With Poème Numérique, we focus on one particular interactive performance or rather its whole preceding design and development process in two phases as described
Conclusion and future steps Overall, the artist was happy and satisfied with the process and outcome (‘There is potential in [Poème Numérique].’) and expressed interest in continuing it, to either explore new ideas or refine and further existing ones: An idea that resulted from the workshops mentioned by the artist was to further extend the artistic control over sound and performance and allow for more finegrained and immediate changes: ‘All possible controls would be interesting [..] volume control, control over what is played where
Summary
Smartphones have become a key device for large-scale audience participation in live music both for scientific studies as well as performing artists, e.g. Hirabayashi and Eshima (2015), Wu, Zhang, Bryan-Kinns, and Barthet (2017), Lee, Willette, Koutra, and Lasecki (2019) or Matuszewski, Schnell, and Bevilacqua (2019).We contribute to this area of research and build on different promising, but not yet fully studied concepts in the area of large-scale audience participation using smartphones.In this study, we design, develop, and evaluate Poème Numérique, which is both, a new performance concept and smartphone application for technology-mediated audience participation (TMAP) in live music. Smartphones have become a key device for large-scale audience participation in live music both for scientific studies as well as performing artists, e.g. Hirabayashi and Eshima (2015), Wu, Zhang, Bryan-Kinns, and Barthet (2017), Lee, Willette, Koutra, and Lasecki (2019) or Matuszewski, Schnell, and Bevilacqua (2019) We contribute to this area of research and build on different promising, but not yet fully studied concepts in the area of large-scale audience participation using smartphones. We found that technology itself became an inspirational instrument for the artist and the artistic practice This concerns the smartphone in two ways; as a complex technical device itself, and the app and its wide range of interaction techniques that may be used for musical purposes. We conclude that it is crucial to involve the artist as much as possible in the technical design and development to align mutual artistic and technical possibilities and demands
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