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Figure 8.10
Creating music with the system.
Figure 8.11
Plane-based music creation interface. (From Nakaie, T., Koyama, T., and Hirakawa, M.
Development of Collaborative Multimodal System with a Shared Sound Display
, 14-19, 2008. With
permission.)
Move (implemented by sting and release) is an operation to move a sound
object to any position on the table. Needless to say, the associated sound
moves along the drag gesture.
Remove (implemented by flick) is an operation to delete a sound object.
When the user flicks a certain sound object, it flows out of the table with
graphical effects (i.e., the object is broken in segments, see the picture on the
right of Figure 8.10).
Players jointly work to create music by manipulating a number of sound
objects on Sound Table. Here the music created is not the same as we enjoy
hearing in everyday life. It is considered a mashup created out of pieces of two
or more songs, or a soundscape composed of sound segments including songs
of birds, chirping of crickets, blasts of wind, and the sound of water drops.
Figure 8.11 shows another implementation of the music creation interface
(an auditory Voronoi diagram) in which a plane-based expression is adopted
