Inclusive improvisation through sound and movement mapping: from DMI to ADMI

Alon Ilsar; Gail Kenning

doi:10.1145/3373625.3416988

Inclusive improvisation through sound and movement mapping: from DMI to ADMI

Alon Ilsar, Gail Kenning

Department of Human Centred Computing

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Abstract

The field of Accessible Digital Musical Instruments (ADMIs) is growing rapidly, with instrument designers recognising that adaptations to existing Digital Musical Instruments (DMIs) can foster inclusive music making. ADMIs offer opportunities to engage with a wider range of sounds than acoustic instruments. Furthermore, gestural ADMIs free the music maker from relying on screen, keyboard and mouse-based interfaces for engaging with these sounds. This brings greater opportunities for exploration, improvisation, empowerment and flow through music making for people living with disabilities. This paper presents a case study of the a gestural DMI invented by the first author and shows that system-based considerations that enabled an expert percussionist to achieve virtuoso performances with the instrument, required minimal hardware and software changes to facilitate greater inclusivity. Understanding the needs of the users and customising the system-based movement to sound mappings was of far greater importance in making the instrument accessible.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	ASSETS 2020 - 22nd International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility
Editors	Hugo Nicolau, Karyn Moffatt
Place of Publication	New York NY USA
Publisher	Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
Pages	1-8
Number of pages	8
ISBN (Electronic)	9781450371032
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/3373625.3416988
Publication status	Published - 2020
Event	ACM SIGACCESS International Conference on Computers and Accessibility 2020 - Virtual, Greece Duration: 26 Oct 2020 → 28 Oct 2020 Conference number: 22nd https://assets20.sigaccess.org/#:~:text=The%2022nd%20International%20ACM%20SIGACCESS,a%20fully%20online%20format%20instead. (Website) https://dl.acm.org/doi/proceedings/10.1145/3373625 (Proceedings)

Conference

Conference	ACM SIGACCESS International Conference on Computers and Accessibility 2020
Abbreviated title	ASSETS 2020
Country/Territory	Greece
Period	26/10/20 → 28/10/20
Internet address	https://assets20.sigaccess.org/#:~:text=The%2022nd%20International%20ACM%20SIGACCESS,a%20fully%20online%20format%20instead. (Website) https://dl.acm.org/doi/proceedings/10.1145/3373625 (Proceedings)

Keywords

Accessible Digital Musical Instruments
creative engagement
gesture
improvisation

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Ilsar, A & Kenning, G 2020, Inclusive improvisation through sound and movement mapping: from DMI to ADMI. in H Nicolau & K Moffatt (eds), ASSETS 2020 - 22nd International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility., 3416988, Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), New York NY USA, pp. 1-8, ACM SIGACCESS International Conference on Computers and Accessibility 2020, Greece, 26/10/20. https://doi.org/10.1145/3373625.3416988

Inclusive improvisation through sound and movement mapping: from DMI to ADMI. / Ilsar, Alon; Kenning, Gail.
ASSETS 2020 - 22nd International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility. ed. / Hugo Nicolau; Karyn Moffatt. New York NY USA: Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), 2020. p. 1-8 3416988.

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