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TOUCHtr4ck: democratic collaborative music

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TEI '11: Proceedings of the fifth international conference on Tangible, embedded, and embodied interaction

Pages 309 - 312

https://doi.org/10.1145/1935701.1935773

Published: 22 January 2010 Publication History

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When electronic musicians compose collaboratively, they typically use their own single-user musical controllers. It may, therefore, be useful to develop novel controllers that support collaborative workflows and democratic principles. After describing the design principles for developing such controllers, we present TOUCHtr4ck, a prototype multi-touch system designed to facilitate such democratic relationships. Informal testing has revealed that this approach does facilitate democratic and collaborative music making, and can produce creative musical results.

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Index Terms

TOUCHtr4ck: democratic collaborative music
1. Applied computing
  1. Arts and humanities
    1. Sound and music computing
2. Human-centered computing
  1. Collaborative and social computing

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TEI '11: Proceedings of the fifth international conference on Tangible, embedded, and embodied interaction

January 2011

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DOI:10.1145/1935701

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