Paper Info
Title
JamiOki-PureJoy: A Game Engine and Instrument for Electronically-Mediated Musical Improvisation.
Abstract
JamiOki-PureJoy is a novel electronically mediated musical performance system. PureJoy is a musical instrument; A highly flexible looper, sampler, effects processor and sound manipulation interface based on Pure Data, with input from a joystick controller and headset microphone. PureJoy allows the player to essentially sculpt their voice with their hands. JamiOki is an engine for running group-player musical game pieces. JamiOki helps each player by 'whispering instructions' in their ear. Players track and control their progress through the game using a graphical display and a touch-sensitive footpad. JamiOki is an architecture for bringing groups of players together to express themselves musically in a way that is both spontaneous and formally satisfying. The flexibility of the PureJoy instrument offers to JamiOki the ability for any player to play any requested role in the music at any time. The musical structure provided by JamiOki helps PureJoy players create more complex pieces of music on the fly with spontaneous sounds, silences, themes, recapitulation, tight transitions, structural hierarchy, interesting interactions, and even friendly competition. As a combined system JamiOki-PureJoy is exciting and fun to play.
Year
DOI
Venue
2007
10.1145/1279740.1279810
NIME
Keywords
Field
DocType
found sound,electronically-mediated performance,group-player musical game piece,structured improvisation,purejoy,combined system,musical performance system,collaborative performance,purejoy instrument,purejoy player,pure data,musical structure,spontaneous sound,jamioki,players track,game engine,musical instrument,electronically-mediated musical improvisation
Headset,Pure Data,Computer science,Musical,Musical improvisation,Whispering,Musical instrument,Human–computer interaction,Joystick,Multimedia,Musical form
Conference
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
3
0.54
10
Authors
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Benjamin Vigoda1185.17
David Merrill224417.59