Artistic Musical Interfaces

Artistic musical interfaces aren't often thought of in the musical interface 'world'. However, it does have a great example that was put on exhibition at the South Bank in summer 2006.


Image from Philharmonia Orchestra (http://www.philharmonia.co.uk/)


http://www.philharmonia.co.uk/thesoundexchange/play__fllstp__orchestra/

http://www.pixelsumo.com/post/play-orchestra

PLAY.orchestra was a fun, 'virtual' orchestra that consisted of cubes that visitors sat on to start playing one of the pre-recorded instruments that were playing a piece. The layout was to scale of a real full-sized orchestra stage, with the 'instruments' in the places they would be in a real orchestra.

PLAY.orchestra relates heavily to Karate Jukebox because of how it allows users to play individual pieces of sound and involve many users at once. Karate Jukebox will have the added bonus that the user will be generating the sound in real time and not be using pre-recorded instruments playing the same song. This strengthens the opinion that Karate Jukebox will be a huge hit an exhibition.