Interactive tango milonga: Designing internal experience

Courtney Brown; Garth Paine

doi:10.1145/2790994.2791013

Interactive tango milonga: Designing internal experience

Courtney Brown, Garth Paine

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Abstract

The Argentine tango concept of connection refers to the experience of complete synchronicity between self, partner, and music. This paper presents Interactive Tango Milonga, an interactive system giving tango dancers agency over music in order to increase this sense of relation between both partners and music. Like an improvising musician in an ensemble, each dancer receives musical feedback from both her movements and her partner's. Thus, each dancer can respond to the music, driving musical feedback, thereby heightening awareness and agency in both the sound and her partner's movements. Via presentation of this system, this paper illustrates methods for developing interactive systems engaging with distinct musical, movement, and social traditions as well for composing sound-movement relationships leading to specific internal experiences within these social contexts.

Original language	English (US)
Title of host publication	MOCO 2015 - Proceedings of the 2nd International Workshop on Movement and Computing
Subtitle of host publication	Intersecting Art, Meaning, Cognition, Technology
Publisher	Association for Computing Machinery
Pages	17-20
Number of pages	4
ISBN (Electronic)	9781450334570
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/2790994.2791013
State	Published - Aug 14 2015
Event	2nd International Workshop on Movement and Computing, MOCO 2015 - Vancouver, Canada Duration: Aug 14 2015 → Aug 15 2015

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Name	ACM International Conference Proceeding Series
Volume	14-15-August-2015

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Other	2nd International Workshop on Movement and Computing, MOCO 2015
Country/Territory	Canada
City	Vancouver
Period	8/14/15 → 8/15/15

Keywords

Argentine tango
Interactive dance
Mapping strategies
Motion capture
Social dance

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Software
Human-Computer Interaction
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Computer Networks and Communications

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Brown, C., & Paine, G. (2015). Interactive tango milonga: Designing internal experience. In MOCO 2015 - Proceedings of the 2nd International Workshop on Movement and Computing: Intersecting Art, Meaning, Cognition, Technology (pp. 17-20). (ACM International Conference Proceeding Series; Vol. 14-15-August-2015). Association for Computing Machinery. https://doi.org/10.1145/2790994.2791013

Interactive tango milonga: Designing internal experience. / Brown, Courtney; Paine, Garth.
MOCO 2015 - Proceedings of the 2nd International Workshop on Movement and Computing: Intersecting Art, Meaning, Cognition, Technology. Association for Computing Machinery, 2015. p. 17-20 (ACM International Conference Proceeding Series; Vol. 14-15-August-2015).

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution

Brown, C & Paine, G 2015, Interactive tango milonga: Designing internal experience. in MOCO 2015 - Proceedings of the 2nd International Workshop on Movement and Computing: Intersecting Art, Meaning, Cognition, Technology. ACM International Conference Proceeding Series, vol. 14-15-August-2015, Association for Computing Machinery, pp. 17-20, 2nd International Workshop on Movement and Computing, MOCO 2015, Vancouver, Canada, 8/14/15. https://doi.org/10.1145/2790994.2791013

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