Transforming Transformation: “conclusions and future work”
Our AHRC Digital Transformations project "Transforming Transformation" officially finished last week, so I thought I'd share a few thoughts about how the project went and what our future directions might be. The aim of the project was to initiate a new human-centred approach to sound transformation that departs from existing [...]
MiXD website now online
As part of the final phase of our AHRC Digital Transformations we're organising a national symposium on Music Interaction Design (MiXD). At the symposium we will present our own Transforming Transformation project, which will sit alongside other former AHRC Digital Transformations project as well as a range of talks and [...]
Glasgow School of Art showreel
Great to see our AHRC Digital Transformations project featured in our project partner Glasgow School of Art's digital showreel (at 23 seconds in).
MiXD videos now available
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xq-_CChlufc&list=PL7E6VwpzpQbn7-ueF8wFBN9Idnf-P8nF_ The videos from our MiXD symposium are now available via the following link. The symposium was huge success and featured a presentation of our final AHRC Digital Transformations system (Integra Forms) as well as our Transforming Transformation artistic commission alongside a range of other talks and demos including [...]
ICLI Paper accepted
Our paper titled 'Approaches to Visualising the Spatial Position of Sound-objects' has been accepted for publication as a paper and demo at the International Conference on Live Interfaces. The paper, brings together research conducted to-date as part of our AHRC-funded Transforming Transformation project, a collaboration with Glasgow School of Art's [...]
esthesis: performance at MiXD
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dBRzhuQ3W5w As part of our AHRC Digital Transformations project "Transforming Transformation" we commissioned a new artistic work to explore the concept of transforming sound through touch-free interaction within a creative context. To say we are delighted with the results would be an understatement! esthesis, the new system and work by [...]
EVA paper accepted
Our paper titled 'Approaches to Visualising the Spatial Position of Sound-objects' has been accepted for publication as a paper and demo at EVA London 2016. The paper, which draws heavily on research conducted as part of our AHRC-funded Transforming Transformation project explores ways in which sound spatial location and spatial [...]
Keynote confirmed for MiXD symposium
In order to greatly extend the final workshop of our AHRC Digital Transformations project we've decided to host a national symposium on Music Interaction Design (MiXD). We're now delighted to announce that Jason Mesut has confirmed will be delivering the Keynote address. Jason is a professional user experience and interaction [...]
Transforming Transformation Experiment 4
https://vimeo.com/album/3830936/video/152990816 This is the fourth experiment in a 1-year AHRC Digital Transformations project run jointly between Birmingham Conservatoire’s Integra Lab and Glasgow School of Art’s Digital Design Studios. The project explores new ways of positioning sound in space using touch-free interaction. In this experiment we use the Microsoft Kinect [...]
Adding vibrotactile feedback
One of the findings from our first round of tests for the system we have developed for our AHRC Digital Transformations project "Transforming Transformation" is that users have difficulty precisely grabbing an object within a virtual 3D environment if they only have visual feedback to guide them. The final phase [...]
Artistic commission
We're pleased to announce that composer and sound artist James Dooley has accepted the artistic commission for our AHRC-funded Transforming Transformation project (working title "Integra Forms"). The aim of the project is to develop new ways of transforming sound through touch-free interaction. An important element of the project is an [...]
Initial test results
We have now completed the first round of testing on the system we've been developing for our AHRC Digital Transformations "Transforming Transformation" project. Full results will be available in due course through peer-reviewed publication, but in summary we conducted a system usability and user experience (UX) study involving 14 participants [...]
Transforming Transformation at Music Tech Fest
Today I demo'd the first prototype of our 3D Sound Transformation system at Music Tech Fest Central in Ljubljana. The system-in-progress, has been given the working title "Integra Forms" on account of our aim to enable sound to be transformed (or formed) in space as though it is an invisible [...]
Transforming Transformation experiment 3
https://vimeo.com/139458528 This is the third experiment in a 1-year AHRC Digital Transformations project run jointly between Birmingham Conservatoire’s Integra Lab and Glasgow School of Art’s Digital Design Studios. The project explores new ways of positioning sound in space using touch-free interaction. In this experiment we use the Microsoft Kinect [...]
Transforming Transformation experiment 2
https://vimeo.com/138194406 This is the second experiment in a 1 year AHRC Digital Transformations project run jointly between Birmingham Conservatoire’s Integra Lab and Glasgow School of Art’s Digital Design Studios. The project explores the creative applications of 3D sound manipulation, specifically sound spatialisation. In this experiment we use the Microsoft [...]
Announcing the MiXD symposium
As part of our AHRC Digital Transformations project we were planning to present our final system (working title "Integra Forms") through a national public workshop hosted at Birmingham Conservatoire as part of the annual Frontiers Festival. However, since we have received significant interest from researchers interest in using the boundaries [...]
Transforming Transformation experiment 1
https://vimeo.com/131588660 This is the initial experiment in a 1 year AHRC Digital Transformations project run jointly between Birmingham Conservatoire’s Integra Lab and Glasgow School of Art’s Digital Design Studios. The project will explore the creative applications of 3D sound manipulation, specifically sound spatialisation. In this first experiment a basic [...]
Designing a human-centred system for sound transformation
At its core our AHRC Digital Transformations project "Transforming Transformation" has a simple aim: to instigate a new way of transforming sound that radically improves on existing approaches. The current state of the art If a music producer or sound designer wants to transform a sound, for example by applying [...]
Fully articulated hand tracking with Kinect 2
This video from MicroSoft Research shows some of the hand-tracking capabilities of the Kinect. Shame this functionality isn't yet in the public SDK as it would've been highly relevant to our project. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A-xXrMpOHyc
Choosing technologies and frameworks
Choosing technologies and frameworks is an important early stage of any digital research project. Basing a project on the wrong tech can cost time and money, make systems harder to support, prohibit certain types of use, diminish user experience or result in early obsolescence. However, there is rarely (if ever) [...]
AHRC Digital Transformations project begins
We are delighted to announce the beginning of our AHRC-funded Digital Transformations project, titled "Transforming Transformation: 3D Models for Interactive Sound Design". This will be a 12-month collaboration with Glasgow School of Art's Digital Design studios, world leaders in digital interaction and visualisation and commercial partners TwoBigEars, experts in developing [...]