Virage: Designing An Interactive Intermedia Sequencer From Users Requirements And Theorical Background

We present the research process of the Virage project and its main achievement : a sequencer for authoring and performing interactive intermedia scenarios. This two year long project addressed the question of authoring and controlling interactive scenarios dealing with several heterogeneous digital media, in the context of the performing arts. We show here how we adapted a theoretical background, meant for the interpretation of musical scores, to specific requirements in collaboration with practitioners in the field. We also describe how these exchanges about the features of the sequencer guided the software development.