London-based percussive players - Need participants!
Oct 27, 2020 18:27:34 GMT
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Post by virgult on Oct 27, 2020 18:27:34 GMT
Hi all,
Again nice to meet you all! I'm Andrea, a researcher at Queen Mary University of London's Augmented Instruments Lab. What follows is a call for participants for a (paid) user study led by me at my university. Please read if it's of interest!
I am working on the design of an augmented acoustic guitar for percussive players. If you are a percussive fingerstyle guitarist, or an expert player with some experience with guitar percussion, and you are able to be in London for a performance session, we would like you to be a participant in our next evaluation study.
Background
Augmenting acoustic guitars is no mean feat, and it's even less so if the target is guitar percussion. It's easy to fall into the trap of developing a solution that "solves" problems that aren't really there, especially because it's the constraints of our instrument that give us the best ideas. Arguably, percussive fingerstyle would have never been born in the first place if we weren't limited by not having a rhythm section with us at all times!
As researchers in Digital Musical Instruments (DMI), we started off by looking at what lessons instrument designers can learn from percussive fingerstyle [1]. That information allowed us to design a prototype through which we are going to acquire more data on percussive playing, and test some devices on an actual guitar performance.
What you will be required to do
We are looking for participants who are willing to come to our Performance Lab at Queen Mary University of London (Mile End, E1 4NS) and have one percussive acoustic guitar piece ready to play for us. It can be your own or a cover.
You will take part in a live performance in which you are going to get acquainted with three different prototype configurations and perform your piece with them, then provide some feedback to the researchers. After the session, remotely, you will be able to see a video of yourself and of another participant's performance, and you will be asked to provide written feedback through a web interface.
The study is going to last approximately 1 hour 20 minutes between the 50-minute performance and the 30-minute remote session. We are expecting to run all sessions between late November and early December 2020. The studios are 100% COVID-safe.
Compensation
You will be compensated at the MU-approved rate of £35 per hour for one-to-one teaching. The total amount will be £45.
Contact details
If you would like to participate, please get in touch with me by DM as soon as possible. I will follow up with my academic contact and we'll exchange your details, a link to a video or a published album of yours, and a mention of what piece you would like to play.
References
[1] Martelloni, A., McPherson, A. and Barthet, M., 2020. Percussive Fingerstyle Guitar through the Lens ofNIME: an Interview Study.
Again nice to meet you all! I'm Andrea, a researcher at Queen Mary University of London's Augmented Instruments Lab. What follows is a call for participants for a (paid) user study led by me at my university. Please read if it's of interest!
I am working on the design of an augmented acoustic guitar for percussive players. If you are a percussive fingerstyle guitarist, or an expert player with some experience with guitar percussion, and you are able to be in London for a performance session, we would like you to be a participant in our next evaluation study.
Background
Augmenting acoustic guitars is no mean feat, and it's even less so if the target is guitar percussion. It's easy to fall into the trap of developing a solution that "solves" problems that aren't really there, especially because it's the constraints of our instrument that give us the best ideas. Arguably, percussive fingerstyle would have never been born in the first place if we weren't limited by not having a rhythm section with us at all times!
As researchers in Digital Musical Instruments (DMI), we started off by looking at what lessons instrument designers can learn from percussive fingerstyle [1]. That information allowed us to design a prototype through which we are going to acquire more data on percussive playing, and test some devices on an actual guitar performance.
What you will be required to do
We are looking for participants who are willing to come to our Performance Lab at Queen Mary University of London (Mile End, E1 4NS) and have one percussive acoustic guitar piece ready to play for us. It can be your own or a cover.
You will take part in a live performance in which you are going to get acquainted with three different prototype configurations and perform your piece with them, then provide some feedback to the researchers. After the session, remotely, you will be able to see a video of yourself and of another participant's performance, and you will be asked to provide written feedback through a web interface.
The study is going to last approximately 1 hour 20 minutes between the 50-minute performance and the 30-minute remote session. We are expecting to run all sessions between late November and early December 2020. The studios are 100% COVID-safe.
Compensation
You will be compensated at the MU-approved rate of £35 per hour for one-to-one teaching. The total amount will be £45.
Contact details
If you would like to participate, please get in touch with me by DM as soon as possible. I will follow up with my academic contact and we'll exchange your details, a link to a video or a published album of yours, and a mention of what piece you would like to play.
References
[1] Martelloni, A., McPherson, A. and Barthet, M., 2020. Percussive Fingerstyle Guitar through the Lens ofNIME: an Interview Study.