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Atlanta, GA | Posted: November 7, 2008
Georgia Tech Media Relations
Laura Diamond
laura.diamond@comm.gatech.edu
404-894-6016
Jason Maderer
maderer@gatech.edu
404-660-2926
Summary Sentence:
Tech is finding new ways to get audiences to interact with music
Full Summary:
Music Technology Professor Jason Freeman is exploring new ways for audiences to interact with performers. His research includes both live audience participation and online applications
Jason Freeman
Jason Freeman (1 of 2)
Jason Freeman (2 of 2)Music Technology Professor Jason Freeman is exploring new ways for audiences to interact with performers. His research includes both live audience participation and online applications
One recent example of Freeman's work is a performance called Flock.
"It is kind of a cross between a game, a dance, a club and a concert," said Freeman. "Everyone was moving around. Sometimes people were ballroom dancing, other times people were dancing in conga lines, and other times people were moving in much more chaotic ways."
The musicians' notes were generated in real-time by computers that were using cameras mounted on the ceiling to track the location of the audience members.
Freeman says he's interested in engaging audiences that might not usually interact with the composing process or even attend a live performance.
One of Freeman's recent online applications is called Graph Theory, a solo violin piece. People are able to visit a Web site and reorder fragments of the piece. The decisions are then collected to create a new piece that is then performed in a live concert.
Freeman says his future research will include how mobile devices can allow people to interact with each other and interact with the space around them in new kinds of ways.
"So little of how we experience music these days is in a live performance," said Freeman. "So it is important to me to infiltrate the ways we do experience music and reflect upon those through my work and through my research."
