DJammer: a new digital, mobile, virtual, personal musical instrument

Author

Hans, Mat ; Slayden, April ; Smith, Mark ; Banerjee, Banny ; Gupta, Arvind

Author_Institution

HP Labs, Palo Alto, CA, USA

fYear

2005

fDate

6-8 July 2005

Abstract

Named for the combination of the words DJ and Jamming, the DJammer allows its users to manipulate their music using standard DJ techniques as well as interact with others in virtual jam sessions through the exchange and sharing of multiple music streams. In this paper, we describe the evolution of the DJammer including the interactive process and evaluation which led to the latest prototype. This latest prototype allows its users to "touch" their digital music through single-handed manipulation and control. By allowing both creativity and communication with digital music, the DJammer is a new musical instrument which takes the next step in the evolution of portable music players.

Keywords

electronic music; interactive systems; music; musical instruments; digital personal musical instrument; interactive process; mobile virtual DJammer; music stream; portable music player; single-handed music manipulation; standard DJ technique; virtual jam session; Adders; Collaboration; Communication system control; Digital audio players; Fading; Instruments; Jamming; Mobile communication; Music; Prototypes;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Multimedia and Expo, 2005. ICME 2005. IEEE International Conference on

Print_ISBN

0-7803-9331-7

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICME.2005.1521361

Filename

1521361