GMIS

Designing Group Music Improvisation Systems (GMIS) is the title of a workshop series by Bart Hengeveld and Mathias Funk that focuses on systems for new musical expression.

This workshop invites scholars, practitioners and students of design and design research, especially those with a keen interest in designing for performances, musical expression and blurring the line between designing and using. During this workshop you explore how to design in the context of distributed, networked interfaces, dynamic input-output mappings and emergent aesthetics. You do this in the context of group music performance.

Find some more information on the workshop website or in workshop paper (Funk & Hengeveld, 2018).

Over the years, there were several student projects related to the research on Group Music Improvisation Systems, such as the EmJam project (Rios et al., 2016), the “Beat my bass, pluck my drum” project (Hengeveld et al., 2014) and the Experio project (Junggeburth et al., 2013).

dynamic mapping, emergent aesthetics, expressiv...

Funk, M., & Hengeveld, B. (2018). Designing within connected systems. Proceedings of the 2018 ACM Conference Companion Publication on Designing Interactive Systems, 407–410.
Abstract BibTeX Link to publication
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@inproceedings{133df3c3756942878e25d67ec01d17ef,
  title = {Designing within connected systems},
  keywords = {dynamic mapping, emergent aesthetics, expressive interaction, musical interfaces, systems design},
  author = {Funk, Mathias and Hengeveld, Bart},
  year = {2018},
  month = jun,
  day = {11},
  doi = {10.1145/3197391.3197400},
  language = {English},
  isbn = {978-1-4503-5631-2},
  pages = {407--410},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the 2018 ACM Conference Companion Publication on Designing Interactive Systems},
  publisher = {ACM Press}
}
```
In this two-day workshop, we investigate how to design in the context of distributed, networked interfaces, dynamic input-output mappings and emergent aesthetics. With this workshop, we aim to complement the theoretical discussion of positions provided by the participants with the hands-on activity of designing and building a networked group interface for music manipulation using Leap Motion\circledR controllers.Participants engage in a two-stage design process, the first focused on designing individual music controllers and the second on using these in a networked format. We conclude the workshop with a reflection and discussion of what was achieved at both theoretical and experiential levels, and project a roadmap of future activities together.

music, improvisation, composition, instrument, ...

Rios, G. O., Funk, M., & Hengeveld, B. (2016). Designing for group music improvisation: a case for jamming with your emotions. International Journal of Arts and Technology, 9(4), 320–345.

BibTeX

@article{b50437c1b54344688229aa2940365013,
  title = {Designing for group music improvisation: a case for jamming with your emotions},
  keywords = {music, improvisation, composition, instrument, performance, emotions, arousal, expressivity, electro dermal activity, EDA, skin conductivity},
  author = {Rios, {Gustavo Ostos} and Funk, Mathias and Hengeveld, Bart},
  year = {2016},
  volume = {9},
  pages = {320--345},
  journal = {International Journal of Arts and Technology},
  issn = {1754-8853},
  publisher = {Inderscience Publishers},
  number = {4}
}

Hengeveld, B., Funk, M., & Doing, V. (2014). Beat my bass, pluck my drum. Proceedings of the 2014 Companion Publication on Designing Interactive Systems, 49–52.

BibTeX

@inproceedings{hengeveld2014beat,
  author = {Hengeveld, Bart and Funk, Mathias and Doing, Vleer},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the 2014 companion publication on Designing interactive systems},
  citeulike-article-id = {13842984},
  organization = {ACM},
  pages = {49--52},
  posted-at = {2015-11-20 20:42:29},
  priority = {0},
  title = {Beat my bass, pluck my drum},
  year = {2014}
}

Junggeburth, M., Giacolini, L., van Rooij, T., van Hout, B., Hengeveld, B., Funk, M., & Frens, J. (2013). Experio: A Laser-Triggered Dance Music Generator. In L. L. Chen, T. Djajadiningrat, L. Feijs, S. Fraser, J. Hu, S. Kyffin, & D. Steffen (Eds.), Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Design and Semantics of Form and Movement (DeSForM 2013) (pp. 170–174). Philips.

BibTeX

@inproceedings{citeulike:12698977,
  author = {Junggeburth, Manon and Giacolini, Luca and van Rooij, Tom and van Hout, Bastiaan and Hengeveld, Bart and Funk, Mathias and Frens, Joep},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Design and Semantics of Form and Movement (DeSForM 2013)},
  citeulike-article-id = {12698977},
  editor = {Chen, L. L. and Djajadiningrat, T. and Feijs, L. and Fraser, S. and Hu, J. and Kyffin, S. and Steffen, D.},
  isbn = {978-90-386-3462-3},
  location = {Wuxi, China},
  month = sep,
  pages = {170--174},
  posted-at = {2013-10-07 06:28:14},
  priority = {0},
  publisher = {Philips},
  title = {Experio: A {Laser-Triggered} Dance Music Generator},
  year = {2013}
}

Ostos Rios, G. A., Funk, M., & Hengeveld, B. J. (2016). Designing for group music improvisation: a case for jamming with your emotions. International Journal of Arts and Technology, 9(4), 320-345. DOI: 10.1504/IJART.2016.10002396

Hengeveld, B. J., Funk, M., & Doing, V. (2014). Beat my bass, pluck my drum. In Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Designing Interactive Systems (DIS 2014), 21-25 June 2014, Vancouver, Canada (pp. 49-52). New York: Association for Computing Machinery, Inc. DOI: 10.1145/2598784.2602779

van Hout, B. F. K., Giacolini, L., Hengeveld, B. J., Funk, M., & Frens, J. W. (2014). Experio: a design for novel audience participation in club settings. In 14th International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression (NIME 2014), 30 June – 4 July 2014, London, United Kingdom (pp. 46-49)

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