@inproceedings{f9ab7ceccc114d22970e2d8eeefd7482,
title = "Keep the VRhythm going: A musician-centred study investigating how Virtual Reality can support creative musical practice",
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.",
keywords = "Creativity, Improvisation, Music, Musical practice, Performing, Rehearsing, Virtual Reality",
author = "Sophia Ppali and Vali Lalioti and Boyd Branch and Ang, {Chee Siang} and Thomas, {Andrew J.} and Wohl, {Bea S.} and Alexandra Covaci",
year = "2022",
month = apr,
day = "29",
doi = "10.1145/3491102.3501922",
language = "English",
volume = "(In-Press)",
series = "CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems",
publisher = "ACM",
pages = "1--19",
editor = "Simone Barbosa and Cliff Lampe and Caroline Appert and Shamma, {David A}",
booktitle = "CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems",
address = "United States",
note = "CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, CHI {\textquoteright}22 ; Conference date: 29-04-2022 Through 05-05-2022",
}