Processual and Experiential Design in Wearable Music Workshopping

Seth Dominicus Thorn; Halley Willcox; Sha Xin Wei

doi:10.1145/3401956.3404235

Processual and Experiential Design in Wearable Music Workshopping

Seth Dominicus Thorn, Halley Willcox, Sha Xin Wei

Arts, Media and Engineering, School of (AME)

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2 Scopus citations

Abstract

This paper describes a series of workshops in which dancers participated in the design of collectively-playable, computational, wearable musical instruments, exploring ensemble experience in improvised events. We describe the progressive phases of layering and computationally creative learning that occurred during our workshops with epistemically and culturally diverse groups of participants. Our approach is motivated by processual and experiential design, as well as a relational approach using collective sonic mappings. The media instruments we constructed during our workshops are based on trial-and-error development of signal processing symmetrizing action and perception, designed without pre-schematizing, abstract models of user intention or semantics. Hence we outline a pre-reflective, pre-individual, sub-semantic approach to relational media synthesis.

Original language	English (US)
Title of host publication	Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Movement and Computing, MOCO 2020
Publisher	Association for Computing Machinery
ISBN (Electronic)	9781450375054
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/3401956.3404235
State	Published - Jul 15 2020
Event	7th International Conference on Movement and Computing, MOCO 2020 - Jersey City, Virtual, United States Duration: Jul 15 2020 → Jul 17 2020

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Name	ACM International Conference Proceeding Series

Conference

Conference	7th International Conference on Movement and Computing, MOCO 2020
Country/Territory	United States
City	Jersey City, Virtual
Period	7/15/20 → 7/17/20

Keywords

Dance and technology
embodied interaction
experiential design
gesture and sound
interactive dance
movement and computing
music and movement
process philosophy
radical empiricism
sensory augmentation of movement

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Software
Human-Computer Interaction
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Computer Networks and Communications

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Processual and Experiential Design in Wearable Music Workshopping. / Thorn, Seth Dominicus; Willcox, Halley; Wei, Sha Xin.
Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Movement and Computing, MOCO 2020. Association for Computing Machinery, 2020. (ACM International Conference Proceeding Series).

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution

Thorn, SD, Willcox, H & Wei, SX 2020, Processual and Experiential Design in Wearable Music Workshopping. in Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Movement and Computing, MOCO 2020. ACM International Conference Proceeding Series, Association for Computing Machinery, 7th International Conference on Movement and Computing, MOCO 2020, Jersey City, Virtual, United States, 7/15/20. https://doi.org/10.1145/3401956.3404235

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