Songverse: A Music-Loop Authoring Tool Based on Virtual Reality

Costa, Willams; Ananias, Luca; Barbosa, Iago; Barbosa, Bruno Trajano; Carli, Andre De'; Barioni, Ricardo R.; Figueiredo, Lucas; Teichrieb, Verônica; Filgueira, Daniel

doi:10.1109/svr.2019.00046

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“…The intersection between sound and music computing and VR has grown significantly over the past twenty years, amounting to an established area of research today. Concerning composition, various authors have developed systems for this musical practice (Zappi et al 2012;Buckley and Carlson 2019;Ciciliani 2020;Carey 2016;Costa et al 2019;Graham and Cluett 2016;Moore et al 2015). However, still scarce research has been conducted on the development of specific tools for composition and sound design.…”

Section: Composition In Vrmentioning

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FreesoundVR: soundscape composition in virtual reality using online sound repositories

2022

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The intersection between sound and music computing and Virtual Reality (VR) has grown significantly over the past decades, amounting to an established area of research today. However, still scarce research has been conducted on the development of specific tools for sound design and composition. In this paper, we investigate a new way of exploring online sound repositories to retrieve sounds to be used in soundscape composition, which leverages the VR medium. Specifically, we created a VR system that allows users to search, download, and explore Freesound content in an immersive manner, as well as to use it for soundscape composition practices via a virtual digital audio workstation (DAW). The tags associated to a sound in the repository were converted into virtual objects and environments, which the user could navigate while listening to the sound. We conducted a user study with 16 composers where the developed system was compared against a conventional counterpart comprising the Freesound web version and the Audacity DAW. Overall, quantitative and qualitative results did not indicate a clear and generalized preference for a system over the other. The usability of the two systems along with their offered creativity support, cognitive workload and emotional impact were deemed to be at a comparable level. Nevertheless, the full potential of VR in creating novel compositional experiences also clearly emerged. Our study shows that VR is an effective medium to support users’ creativity during the process of exploring and selecting sounds from an online repository as well as for composing a soundscape.

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Section: Composition In Vrmentioning

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FreesoundVR: soundscape composition in virtual reality using online sound repositories

2022

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“…Taken as a whole, Musical XR systems represented in the database are multifaceted and address a range of primary functions and target users as identified in Section VII-B. Examples for performance are reported in [36], [71], [143], for education in [8], [49], [56], [74], for composition in [37], [45], [64], [102], and for sound engineering in [11], [83]. Other XR systems have focused on entertainment [79], [128], [166], including music visualization [55], [156] and musicrelated cultural heritage applications [60], [114], [142].…”

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“…Only a limited number of Musical XR systems target musicians with specific levels of expertise (e.g., beginners, intermediates, experts). Whereas some systems have been devised for users with no or little musical proficiency [45], most systems are aimed at intermediate levels of musical proficiency rather than virtuosity. It was also found that the vast majority of systems target adults.…”

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Music in Extended Realities

2021

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The intersection between music and Extended Reality (XR) has grown significantly over the past twenty years, amounting to an established area of research today. The use of XR technologies represents a fundamental paradigm shift for various musical contexts as they disrupt traditional notions of musical interaction by enabling performers and audiences to interact musically with virtual objects, agents, and environments. This article both surveys and expands upon the knowledge accumulated in existing research in this area to build a foundation for future works that bring together Music and XR. To this end, we created a freely available dataset of 260 publications in this space and conducted an in-depth analysis covering 199 works in the last decade. We conducted this analysis using a list of conceptual dimensions belonging to technical, artistic, perceptual and methodological domains. This review of the literature is complemented with a set of interviews with domain experts with the goal of establishing a definition for the emergent field of Musical XR, i.e., the field of music in Extended Realities. Based on the results of the conducted review, a research agenda for the field is proposed.

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“…The authors also acknowledge the availability of the volunteers who participated in the evaluation and provided feedback to the system. This research paper is an extended and revised version of Costa et al (2019). This study was financed in part by the Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior -Brasil (CAPES) -Finance Code 001…”

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Songverse: a digital musical instrument based on Virtual Reality

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We can define Digital Musical Instruments (DMIs) as hardware-software solutions that are interactive and crafted to output sound according to users' input. DMIs are well known to unleash users' creativity but also to allow different and innovative experiences for the creation process, for example, smoothing the learning curve towards musical concepts such as rhythm and composition. On the other hand, Virtual Reality (VR) allows users to explore spatial interfaces in a natural and limitless way, which shows potential synergy towards the rise of new DMIs. In this paper, we introduce Songverse, an immersive DMI placed in a Virtual Reality scenario that allows users to create music by interacting with an environment designed to resemble the outer space. By adding systems, planets, and satellites to the virtual environment, the user can shape the produced sound through interactions that were extensively tested during the development phase. We then evaluated the instrument with musicians and non-musicians by interviewing and applying the System Usability Scale (SUS) to assess the easiness for people to create music using Songverse. As a result, users reported the use of the DMI as intuitive and easy to use, also highlighting the produced song as enjoyable.

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Songverse: A Music-Loop Authoring Tool Based on Virtual Reality

Cited by 9 publications

References 8 publications

FreesoundVR: soundscape composition in virtual reality using online sound repositories

FreesoundVR: soundscape composition in virtual reality using online sound repositories

Music in Extended Realities

Songverse: a digital musical instrument based on Virtual Reality

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