Learning to play an instrument and acquire musical aptitude can be听difficult, requiring听long-term engagement and motivation to learn about music;听 jamming, (musical improvisation), is generally thought to be a skill reserved for the most fluent musicians. Jam Station听utilizes various design techniques听so that the musical elements of a jam are more accessible to novice and intermediate musicians. The station听is a 7-by-4 feet听rectangular PVC cuboid听with听four instruments crafted听from听everyday materials, situated so听that each member of the jam faces a centrally and vertically oriented neopixel display. Jam Station's听embedded sensors in the instruments trigger听complex and colorful light displays as听collaboration improves, helping nonmusicians improvise music together.
and see Jam Station in action at the Maker Made exhibition .
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Publications
Torin Hopkins, Peter Pascente, Wayne Seltzer, Kellie Masterson, and Ellen Yi-Luen Do. 2021. The Jam Station: Gamifying Collaborative Musical Experiences Through Algorithmic Assessment. In Proceedings of the Fifteenth International Conference on Tangible, Embedded, and Embodied Interaction (TEI '21). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, Article 58, 1鈥�6. DOI:(Salzburg, Austria听(virtual)鈥揊eb. 14-19, 2021).
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