Designing mobile multi-touch drum sequencing applications

Digital music software can limit the forms of music we create by using interfaces that directly copy those of the analogue instruments that came before. In this study we report on a new multi-touch interface that affords a completely new form of drum sequencing. Based on ideas from Avant-guard music and embodied interaction, a technology probe was created and then evaluated by a wide range of users. We found that for users with no musical training, and for users with a large amount of musical training, the software did allow them to be more creative. However, users with limited training on existing sequencing software found the new interface challenging.

Grantor dc:publisher.institution

Department of Computer Science

Year dc:date.issued

2015

Author dc:creator

• Lekena, Mohato Karabo

Advisors dc:contributor.advisor

• Marsden, Gary
• Suleman, Hussein

Language dc:language.iso

eng

Handle dc:identifier.uri

http://hdl.handle.net/11427/19977

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:open.uct.ac.za:11427/19977