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Towards the Concept of “Digital Dance and Music Instrument” Towards the Concept of “Digital Dance and Music Instrument” João Tragtenberg Filipe Calegario Instituto SENAI de Inovação Instituto SENAI de Inovação para TICs para TICs Rua Frei Cassimiro, 88 Rua Frei Cassimiro, 88 Recife, Brazil Recife, Brazil [email protected] fi[email protected] Giordano Cabral Geber Ramalho CIn-UFPE CIn-UFPE Av. Jornalista Anibal Av. Jornalista Anibal Fernandes, s/n Fernandes, s/n Recife, Brazil Recife, Brazil [email protected] [email protected] ABSTRACT that allow the conversion of human movement into informa- This paper discusses the creation of instruments in which tion, it is possible that a wide variety of gesture can control music is intentionally generated by dance. We introduce the any sound, visuals, light or robotic media [5]. conceptual framework of Digital Dance and Music Instru- The field of artistic creation with digital technology is at ments (DDMI). Several DDMI have already been created, least 56 years old [24] and presented considerable advances but they have been developed isolatedly, and there is still a [17]. The area of Digital Musical Instruments (DMI) has lack of common design guidelines. Knowledge about Digital been well delimited for a long time[26]. Unlike acoustic in- Musical Instruments (DMIs) and Interactive Dance Systems struments, in which the equivalent energy of the gestural (IDSs) can contribute to the design of DDMI, but the for- control is responsible for the sound production, the DMIs mer brings few contributions to the body's expressiveness, have open possibilities. The production of sound is inde- and the latter brings few references to an instrumental re- pendent of gesture control, being only connected by digital lationship with music. Because of these different premises, means. This freedom has allowed a much more full range the integration between both paradigms can be an ardu- of gestures to control sound production. For instance, there ous task for the designer of DDMI. The concept of DDMI are DMI controlled by the positioning of several people in can also be a bridge between DMIs and IDSs, serving as space [13], by eye movement [29], by muscle tension, [18] a lingua franca between both communities and facilitating and by brain signals [12] to cite a few. the exchange of knowledge. Finally, we analyse two exist- The area of Interactive Dance Systems (IDS) is another ing DDMI and describe two DDMI we created during this that puts digital technology in service to artistic expression. research. The conceptual framework has shown to be a In academic literature, there has not been such a clear def- promising analytical tool for the design of new dance and inition of the area, referred by different terms that vary in music instruments. broadness like Interactive Dance/Music Systems [5], Inter- active Music/Dance/Video Systems [8], or Multimodal In- teractive System (MIS) [9]. Other terms were used, such Author Keywords as Interfaces for Dance Performances [22], Interfaces for digital musical instrument, interactive dance systems Dancers [27], Sensor System for Interactive Dance [1] or Multisensory Integrated Expressive Environments [6]. Even CCS Concepts though there is not a consensus on the terminology, we con- sidered all these as parts of the area of IDS. These are digital •Applied computing ! Sound and music comput- systems used in interactive dance performances developed ing; Performing arts; •Human-centered computing ! to enhance the expressive possibilities of dancers with sen- Interaction devices; sors to capture their movements and produce sounds, visu- als or movement through robotic actuators. 1. INTRODUCTION Several researchers have tackled the creation of digital instruments for symbiotic expression of music and dance. A significant advantage of digital technology for artistic ex- However, the initiatives rarely refer to one another, share pression is related to the unprecedented freedom of integra- conceptual frameworks, or join efforts in facing similar chal- tion between diverse expressive modalities. With interfaces lenges of a broader area. To contribute in this direction, we propose a conceptual framework for Digital Instruments of Dance and Music (DDMI). The DDMI stand out from the DMI for the explicit concern about body expressiveness Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution and present different characteristics from the majority of 4.0 International License (CC BY 4.0). Copyright IDS given the instrumental relation with the musical pro- remains with the author(s). duction. NIME’19, June 3-6, 2019, Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, Brazil. 89 2. INSTRUMENTALITY tems. These conclusions propose a new approach to playing 1 The concept of what makes an object a musical instrument music, to perceiving music as well to designing musical in- has been brightly tackled by Sarah-Indriyati Hardjowirogo: struments. In the history of dance, the modern and contemporary \[...] instrumentality, or simply being a musical movements marked a rupture with previous traditions, where instrument must not be understood as a prop- dance was subordinated to musical compositions previously erty an object as such has or has not. Rather, it made. Martha Graham, one of the founders of modern seems to result from using something in a par- dance, was a choreographer who marked this break by inter- ticular way which we think of as instrumental. fering in the process of musical composition, commissioning Consequently, an object is not per se a musi- or suggesting changes in the music pieces from her choreog- cal instrument (ontological definition) but it be- raphy [23]. comes a musical instrument by using it as such This detachment process was intensified after the inter- (utilitarian definition) [...] the term must not be action between the choreographer Merce Cunningham and understood as denoting a property an object per the composer John Cage, where the choreography was con- se has or has not, but it is rather intended as a ceived independently of the sound composition. Each had a means of capturing the instrumental potential of different narrative, but they were presented together. The a given artefact." [15] audience had the freedom to make their connections be- The \degree of instrumentality" is a dynamic quality of tween dance and music and could switch attention between an object, the result of cultural negotiation [31]. This de- one and the other [23]. In Cage's words: gree depends on a series of factors that characterise the \[...] in working with Merce, the first thing we possibilities of human interaction with the artefact. The did was to liberate the music from the necessity author lists several important criteria for the instrumen- to go with the dance, and to free the dance from tal potential of an artefact: Sound Production, Intention; having to interpret the music." John Cage [19]. Purpose, Learnability; Virtuosity, Playability; Control; Im- mediacy; Agency; Interaction, Expressivity; Effort; Corpo- This rupture was essential to consolidate dance as a lan- reality, \Immaterial Features"; Cultural Embeddedness and guage independent of music, that is, without a hierarchical Audience Perception; Liveness. distinction. Being able to look at both equally opens pos- sibilities to think about new possible relationships between 3. ARTS INTEGRATION them. Our main motivation to study the creation of DDMI is the demand of artists who are at the intersection between music 5. CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK FOR DDMI and dance, interested in expressing themselves in both art The instrumental control of music by the dancer is not usu- forms at the same time. ally taken into account by the IDS researchers. On the other The integration of the arts is an ancient quest in hege- hand, musicians' body expressiveness is not frequently con- monic Western history. The Florentine humanists of the sidered as a relevant asset for the DMI literature. It is a nat- seventeenth century introduced the concept of opera, ref- ural consequence from the musician's focus on sound pro- erencing the theatrical traditions of ancient Greece which duction, and the dancer's primary concern in body move- combined music, dance and poetry. Wagner, in the nine- ments. These bias, nevertheless, can generate much confu- teenth century, brought the concept of unification of the sion to the DDMI designer, hindering its process of ideation arts (Gesamtkunstwerk) [23]. and development of instruments for corporal and musical There are countless artistic traditions in which dance and expression. music performance are inseparable. In the Brazilian tra- In this paper, we present a conceptual framework explic- ditions of samba, forr´o, frevo, vaner~ao, maracatu, cavalo itly tailored to the DDMI designer taking into consideration marinho, dance and music play equally important roles. In aspects that are important for the DDMI architecture. This several artistic contexts, the practice of each artist is of both framework was based on elements of the DMI and IDS lit- languages at the same time. Some other examples are the erature and also on research about IDS or DMI that we various tap dance traditions (such as Fandango, Coco de consider to be also DDMI. Arcoverde, American tap dancing and Irish step dancing). Here is a list of some examples of DDMI that meet the The flamenco dance cannot be understood without the mu- main focus of this research: sical handclapping, foot stomps and castanets playing. • Very Nervous System - being one of the first IDS 4. DANCE AND MUSIC developed2, it used cameras in a simple and expres- sive way. It is an important reference of interactive Some empirical studies have been conducted to prove the installations with an instrumental interaction [34]. importance of body expression for musical perception. Sev- eral studies have analysed the expressive role of gestures • Expressive Footwear - it is a gestural interface in that are not necessary to produce sounds [3, 11, 14]. Psy- the form of a shoe with 12 sensors that are intended chological studies have also shown how the visual cues may to capture the majority of gestural possibilities with even have a stronger weight to the perception of musical the feet.
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