VIDEO
Watch a brief video about massMobile, the framework for mass audience participation via smartphones that Saxophone Etudes employs.
Materials
with Stephen Garrett, Nathan Weitzner, Anosh Daruwalla, and Yan-Ling Chen
for solo saxophone (any voice) with audience participation via mobile phones
Duration: approximately 8 minutes
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About
In Saxophone Etudes, the concert audience influences the music played by the saxophonist during each live performance. Audience members use their smartphones to collectively shape musical factors such as tempo, dynamics, and articulations. The input from the audience is displayed to the saxophonist on a laptop screen, guiding her decisions as she plays the score. In this manner, audience members collaborate with the saxophonist and with each other to shape the music played in each unique performance.
Saxophone Etudes uses massMobile, a smartphone participation system developed by Jason Freeman, Stephen Garrett, Nathan Weitzner, Yan-Ling Chen, Shaoduo Xie, Weibin Shen, Anosh Daruwalla, and Sriram Viswanathan at the Georiga Tech Center for Music Technology. Its development was supported in part by a grant from the National Science Foundation as part of a larger research project on musical improvisation in performance and education (NSF CreativeIT #0855758). It was written for Jan Berry Baker.
Performance History
Jan Berry Baker and Bent Frequency, Atlanta, May 11, 2012.
Jan Berry Baker, Georgia State University at the Goat Farm, Atlanta, April 23, 2012.