A sonar, interactive dance and music system

CodeBLUE: a Bluetooth interactive dance club system

Collaborative music creation can be one of the most powerful forms of human communication. Playing in private improvisational sessions or at public concerts exhilarates musicians, due to the exchanges of emotional and intellectual information inherent in such creative settings. While many people express themselves musically by whistling and humming, relatively few have enough confidence in thei...

Music and dance as a coalition signaling system.

Evidence suggests that humans might have neurological specializations for music processing, but a compelling adaptationist account of music and dance is lacking. The sexual selection hypothesis cannot easily account for the widespread performance of music and dance in groups (especially synchronized performances), and the social bonding hypothesis has severe theoretical difficulties. Humans are...

Gesture Capture: Paradigms in Interactive Music/ Dance Systems

Art, dance, and music therapy.

Art, dance, and music therapy are a significant part of complementary medicine in the twenty-first century. These creative arts therapies contribute to all areas of health care and are present in treatments for most psychologic and physiologic illnesses. Although the current body of solid research is small compared with that of more traditional medical specialties, the arts therapies are now va...

SALIERI: A General, Interactive Computer Music System

In this paper we describe the Salieri System, an interactive software environment for structure oriented composition, manipulation, and analysis of music. The system is built on the newly developed Salieri Language, a universal programming language based on a hierarchical model of formal music representation, combining features of traditional functional and procedural programming languages with...