Tag Archives: Embodied Interaction

Digital Musical Instruments as Probes: How computation changes the mode-of-being of musical instruments

This is another Organised Sound (Open Access) publication by Koray Tahiroğlu, Thor Magnusson, Adam Parkinson, Iris Garrelfs and Atau Tanaka. This article explores how computation opens up possibilities for new musical practices to emerge through technology design. Link tot he … Continue reading

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InSpace with the Otherness

InSpace with the Otherness is a co-located collaboration with a deep learning algorithm. It provides embodied and spatial opportunities to exhibition visitors for musical exploration. http://sopi.aalto.fi/inspace/

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2 new projects starting in January 2018

We will have 2 new projects starting in January 2018, Vibrating Instruments in Virtual Reality (VIVR): Creative Content Production in VR with Cohesive Sense of Reality and Laser String Kantele, more info in the project section.

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NIME 2016 conference – full package presentations

We will attend NIME’16 conference in Brisbane between 11 – 15 July, presenting; our paper “Non-intrusive Counter-actions: Maintaining Progressively Engaging Interactions for Music Performance”, music performance of the composition “KET Conversations” and poster on “Materiality for Musical Expressions: an Approach … Continue reading

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Release of PESI Extended System, available for Open Source distribution

I am very happy to announce the Open Source release of PESI extended system developed at SOPI research group. This system is designed for co-located collaboration, providing spatial opportunities for musical exploration. The software system includes 2 main components; PESI_OnBody … Continue reading

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Looking for Test Users – between 16th-19th June and 23rd-27th June

Dear friends and colleagues, Sound and Physical Interaction – SOPI research group will be conducting a user-test study between the 16th-19th June and 23rd-27th June. We are currently looking for volunteers willing to give a half an hour of their … Continue reading

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SOPI at “Design Can Change!” exhibition, Shenzhen

We have been invited to present the sound art projects, “AHNE & Tension”, and interactive dance performance, “Raja”, at the “Design Can Change!” exhibition in Shenzhen, China. This exhibition will be hold from 12th May to 16th Jun 2013 and … Continue reading

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SOPI at NIME 2013

Koray Tahiroğlu will be presenting the “PESI Extended System: In Space, On Body, with 3 Musicians” paper at 13th International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression (NIME) in Daejeon + Seoul, Korea Republic, May 27-30. This paper is one … Continue reading

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SOPI at CHI 2013

SOPI researchers, Simon Overstall and Valtteri Wikström, will be presenting the “MARSUI: Malleable Audio-Reactive Shape-retaining User Interface” project at the ACM SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, CHI 2013 in Paris 27 April – 02 May. MARSUI is … Continue reading

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SOPI at Audio Mostly 2012

We were at Audio Mostly 2012, Corfu Koray Tahiroğlu’s keynote, “Capture the Sound and Release it in the Air: Across the Exploratory and Extensive Sound Interactions”.

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