Exploring the Affordances and Musico-Spatial Performance Opportunities of a Virtual Drumming Environment

Exploring the Affordances and Musico-Spatial Performance Opportunities of a Virtual Drumming Environment

Ham, Jeremy; Woessner, Uwe; Kieferle, Joachim; Harvey, Lawrence

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The intersection of music and architecture (spatial design) has remained afascination for practitioners and researchers for many years. This paper reportson the development of a Virtual Drumming Environment (VDE) that provides aresearch and cross-domain performance environment for musico-spatial designresearch explorations.The VDE is explored as a means of revealing affordancesrelated to the complexities of polyrhythmic drumming through cross-domainrepresentation of MIDI data as polyrhythmic event-time-dynamics molecules(PM) within virtual space. Further to this, we explore the VDE as a cross-domainperformance environment where new modes of musico-spatial improvisation arerevealed that extend drumming's `known worlds' (Bruford, 2015).

The intersection of music and architecture (spatial design) has remained afascination for practitioners and researchers for many years. This paper reportson the development of a Virtual Drumming Environment (VDE) that provides aresearch and cross-domain performance environment for musico-spatial designresearch explorations.The VDE is explored as a means of revealing affordancesrelated to the complexities of polyrhythmic drumming through cross-domainrepresentation of MIDI data as polyrhythmic event-time-dynamics molecules(PM) within virtual space. Further to this, we explore the VDE as a cross-domainperformance environment where new modes of musico-spatial improvisation arerevealed that extend drumming's `known worlds' (Bruford, 2015).

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DOI: 10.5151/proceedings-ecaadesigradi2019_124

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Ham, Jeremy; Woessner, Uwe; Kieferle, Joachim; Harvey, Lawrence; "Exploring the Affordances and Musico-Spatial Performance Opportunities of a Virtual Drumming Environment", p-441-448. In: Proceedings of 37 eCAADe and XXIII SIGraDi Joint Conference, “Architecture in the Age of the 4Th Industrial Revolution”, Porto 2019, Sousa, José Pedro; Henriques, Gonçalo Castro; Xavier, João Pedro (eds.). São Paulo: Blucher, 2019.
ISSN 23186968, DOI 10.5151/proceedings-ecaadesigradi2019_124