About JamRoom

JamRoom is a project aimed at exploring the collaborative interaction with ubiquitous and visual electronic musical instruments.

The Blogg

We are going to build an installation within which the participants jams with the semi-virtual musical instruments in the room. The instruments can be tactile and visible, like the drum, visible but lacking tactile feedback or fully virtual, only represented by the projection on the surface that it consists of.

All sound generated by the various instruments will contribute to the common visualization of the sound via a projection on the wall and on the floor.

We are aiming at a free framework for creating instruments where instruments could control the sound, and the sound being in control of the visual OR the other way round, instruments playing a visual and the visual being reflected as a sound.

Instruments fit for people on all levels of musical skill are to be built. One should be able to go in and play a drum and have fun even without any previous musical knowledge at all. But one should also be able to improve ones skill and develop with the system. This will be achieved with loopbased-instruments instruments where sense of rythm plays a big part. Pitch altering instruments. Sensors the affect envelopes, lfo:s, resonancefilters etc.

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