Keep the VRhythm going: A musician-centred study investigating how Virtual Reality can support creative musical practice

Sophia Ppali; Vali Lalioti; Boyd Branch; Chee Siang Ang; Andrew J.  Thomas; Bea S.  Wohl; Alexandra Covaci

doi:10.1145/3491102.3501922

Keep the VRhythm going: A musician-centred study investigating how Virtual Reality can support creative musical practice

Sophia Ppali, Vali Lalioti, Boyd Branch, Chee Siang Ang, Andrew J. Thomas, Bea S. Wohl, Alexandra Covaci

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference proceeding › peer-review

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Abstract

The acoustic and visual experiences of musicians in the spaces they perform in are complex and organic in nature, entailing a continuous interaction with the environment. With this project, we leverage the power of Virtual Reality (VR) to support musicians in their creative practice by transporting them to novel sonic and visual worlds. For this, we developed a musician-centred VR system, featuring various acoustic and visual virtual environments, VR Rehearse & Perform, based on design requirements gathered with musicians and performance experts. To investigate how VR can be designed to support music-makers in their creative musical practice, we performed iterative tests with 19 musicians followed by semi-structured interviews. Our findings suggest that VR has the potential to support different aspects of the creative musical practice, such as rehearsing, performing and improvising. Our research provides insights and inspirations toward designing musician-centred VR experiences for various musical activities.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Proceedings of the 2022 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Editors	Simone Barbosa, Cliff Lampe, Caroline Appert, David A Shamma, Steven Drucker, Julie Williamson, Koji Yatani
Publisher	ACM
Pages	1-19
Number of pages	19
ISBN (Electronic)	9781450391573
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/3491102.3501922
Publication status	Published - 29 Apr 2022
Event	CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - New Orleans, United States Duration: 29 Apr 2022 → 5 May 2022

Publication series

Name	CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Publisher	ACM

Conference

Conference	CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Abbreviated title	CHI ’22
Country/Territory	United States
City	New Orleans
Period	29/04/22 → 5/05/22

Funding

United Kingdom's Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) Innovate UK

Funders	Funder number
Arts and Humanities Research Council	AH/V013874/1
Innovate UK	58128

Keywords

Creativity
Improvisation
Music
Musical practice
Performing
Rehearsing
Virtual Reality

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Human-Computer Interaction
Computer Graphics and Computer-Aided Design
Software

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Ppali, S., Lalioti, V., Branch, B., Ang, C. S., Thomas, A. J., Wohl, B. S., & Covaci, A. (2022). Keep the VRhythm going: A musician-centred study investigating how Virtual Reality can support creative musical practice. In S. Barbosa, C. Lampe, C. Appert, D. A. Shamma, S. Drucker, J. Williamson, & K. Yatani (Eds.), Proceedings of the 2022 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (pp. 1-19). Article 220 (CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems). ACM. https://doi.org/10.1145/3491102.3501922

Keep the VRhythm going: A musician-centred study investigating how Virtual Reality can support creative musical practice. / Ppali, Sophia; Lalioti, Vali; Branch, Boyd et al.
Proceedings of the 2022 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. ed. / Simone Barbosa; Cliff Lampe; Caroline Appert; David A Shamma; Steven Drucker; Julie Williamson; Koji Yatani. ACM, 2022. p. 1-19 220 (CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems).

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference proceeding › peer-review

Ppali, S, Lalioti, V, Branch, B, Ang, CS, Thomas, AJ, Wohl, BS & Covaci, A 2022, Keep the VRhythm going: A musician-centred study investigating how Virtual Reality can support creative musical practice. in S Barbosa, C Lampe, C Appert, DA Shamma, S Drucker, J Williamson & K Yatani (eds), Proceedings of the 2022 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems., 220, CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, ACM, pp. 1-19, CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, New Orleans, United States, 29/04/22. https://doi.org/10.1145/3491102.3501922

Ppali S, Lalioti V, Branch B, Ang CS, Thomas AJ, Wohl BS et al. Keep the VRhythm going: A musician-centred study investigating how Virtual Reality can support creative musical practice. In Barbosa S, Lampe C, Appert C, Shamma DA, Drucker S, Williamson J, Yatani K, editors, Proceedings of the 2022 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. ACM. 2022. p. 1-19. 220. (CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems). doi: 10.1145/3491102.3501922

Ppali, Sophia ; Lalioti, Vali ; Branch, Boyd et al. / Keep the VRhythm going : A musician-centred study investigating how Virtual Reality can support creative musical practice. Proceedings of the 2022 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. editor / Simone Barbosa ; Cliff Lampe ; Caroline Appert ; David A Shamma ; Steven Drucker ; Julie Williamson ; Koji Yatani. ACM, 2022. pp. 1-19 (CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems).

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