Connor Griffin MA Project Workshop Blog Post 13 Alot of the feedback that I received from my classmates was centered on the visual component rather than the audio. For the audio, everyone enjoyed the quality of the audio as well as the heart of the song. A Lot of the feedback was centered on how …
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Blog 12
The article that I will be discussing is “The Evolution of Music Performance Anxiety and Quality of Performance During Virtual Reality Exposure Training” by Josiane Bissonnette. What this article is talking about is how the use of Virtual Reality technology is used as a method for treating anxiety disorders in students. More specifically, dealing with …
Blog Week11
The article that I have decided to research is called “Virtual Reality Musical Instruments: State of the Art, Design Principals, and Future Directions” by Stefania Serafin. In this article, they go over the basic principles of Virtual Reality Musical instruments such as the historical context of them being software emulations, how they can act as …
Blog Week 10
One book that I found is called “Virtual Music: Sound, Music, and Image in the Digital Era” by Shara Rambarran. This book is referencing the future landscape of music and sound, as well as what it will look like. To go more in-depth, the book talks about a changing technoscape in which we are able …
Blog 9
The academic article that I have chosen to write about is “The Application of Virtual Reality in Music Teaching System” by Hong-Xuan Bian. This article discusses how an interactivity feature present in Virtual Reality Technology has helped improve upon the traditional way that students typically learn music. The reason that the tech was created in …
Blog 8 Connor G
The article I will write about is “AirPiano: Enhancing Music Playing Experience in virtual-reality with Mid-air Haptic Feedback” by Inwook Hwang; Hyungki Son; and Jin Ryong Kim. The AirPiano is an enhanced music system allowing touchable uses in the virtual reality world as well as real-time feedback. The excitement comes from the realistic angle of …
Blog 7
My research progress is on the right track for the goals that I set this semester. Research articles on the relationship between music and virtual reality are still hard to find so I needed to broaden my search to just music and virtual reality devices separately to get more sources. Some milestones that I am …
Blog WK 6
Another academic article I found is titled: “Music Everywhere-Augmented Reality Piano Improvisation Learning System”. In this article, the author discusses the design and usage of an AR piano tool that combines the Microsoft Hololense and a MIDI Bluetooth-enabled electric piano. The system displays a type of mirror resembling a keyboard, fitted to the environment the …
BLOG WK 5
Another scholarly article I have read is “Performing Music in Virtual/Augmented Space” By Mehrnaz Alirezaie & Joel Mendoza. In this article, they are pushing the boundaries of intersection between music and the Virtual/Augmented reality world. They show this by introducing three virtual reality and three augmented reality instruments and evaluating each instrument through different categories …
ConnorG Blog WK4
The article that I am reviewing is called “Audience Experiences of a Volumetric Reality Music Video” by Garreth Young, Neill O’Dwyer, Matthew Moynihan, and Aljosa Smolic. They describe how the landscape of audio and visual projects is rapidly changing and evolving. One of the ways in which this is changing is by shifting from traditional …