Resonance - When Interaction Design meets Music Tech
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In this presentation Jason connects the world of music technology to professional design practice. He shares some of his inspiration from midi controllers to hard and soft synths. He explores how academia, music technology and the design world can learn from each other. Then he shares some potential trajectories, opportunities and challenges for the future. If you like interaction design, musical instruments and classic synths, you will love this. --------------------------- Jason studied Industrial Design at Brunel University. Since then, his 17 year career in User Experience led him to running regular community events as a local leader for the Interaction Design Association (IxDA) and founding the design and innovation consultancy, Resonant, where he works on physical-digital products and services. When he was younger, he started making music on the Commodore 64, and then on the Amiga with OctaMed. Jason has substituted his lack of musical training with ongoing investments in music technology. He justifies this by connecting his personal passion of music technology with his professional career.
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Resonance - When Interaction Design meets Music Tech
- 1. Resonance Interaction design meets music technology 16 Mar 2016 Jason Mesut Founder, Resonant Local Leader, IxDA London @jasonmesut
- 2. I believe in… Designing products and services that fit our worlds, and enhance our lives
- 3. That could be Cars, transportation, enterprise software, mobile apps, web sites, interactive TV, art installations or retail experiences
- 4. and for some… Music technology
- 5. Music technology… Combines three of my passions: Design. Technology. Music
- 6. My focus is Design. Technology. Music
- 7. We’re going to start by going back Let’s go back in time a little Design. Technology. Music
- 8. Herbie Hancock jazz master, music innovator + Quincy Jones producer legend
- 9. + CMi Fairlight - Sampler And Audio Workstation
- 10. Herbie + Quincy + Fairlight http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n6QsusDS_8A
- 11. Fairlight
- 17. Records
- 18. What are the things you ?
- 20. Technics 1200 SH-101 OP-1Tenori-On I love music tech
- 25. Technics 1200 SH-101 OP-1Tenori-On I love music tech
- 26. My music doesn’t pay the bills But I also love design. It does.
- 27. 5years Industrial Design years Digital User Experience 16
- 28. 4years Local leader Interaction Design Association L o n d o n Subjects over 4 years Internet of Things Future of publishing Urban environment Smart materials Mobility / Automotive Clinical applications Smart home Upcoming… Music interfaces Consumer healthcare
- 29. Looking for speakers and demos April 27th 2016 L o n d o n
- 30. UI/UX/SD/DSUser Interface User eXperience Service Design Design Strategy I could talk about all of the above
- 32. What is a User Interface? UI/UX/SD
- 34. User Interface A human that uses a product or service: customer, employee, citizen, parent, child UI/UX/SD
- 35. User Interface A human that uses something A medium for a user to understand and control a product or service UI/UX/SD
- 36. Bill Verplank Interaction Design pioneer
- 37. Classic diagram by Bill Verplank
- 40. See Hear Touch Smell Taste Icons from Volodin Anton, hunotika, Deivid Sáenz, Jakob Vogel via the Noun Project
- 41. Speed of perception Amount of information Interpretation accuracy Ability to ignore ++ ++ + + ++ + - - +++ + - - - - + - - - - + - - - See Hear Touch Smell Taste
- 42. See Hear Touch Smell Talk
- 43. Handles and buttons Continuous (analogous) and Discreet (digital) Inputs
- 44. The best interfaces combine both handles and buttons eg, Touchscreen, mouse Bill Verplank
- 46. Graphical User Interface Allows users to interact with electronic systems
- 47. Visual Language Motion Graphics Information Design Information Architecture Interaction Design
- 48. Visual Language Motion Graphics Information Design Information Architecture Interaction Design
- 49. Visual language Motion graphics Information Design Information Architecture Interaction Design Still relevant
- 50. But there’s more to UI than just GUI Physical Telephone Voice Embedded Distributed Chat
- 51. I want to talk you through Music tech patterns Future trajectories Current challenges Opportunities
- 53. Music technology is one of the oldest technologies we have
- 54. Photos from the Horniman museum 13 March 2016
- 62. Woodwind
- 63. Woodwind
- 64. Woodwind
- 65. Woodwind
- 66. Woodwind
- 67. Woodwind
- 68. Woodwind
- 69. Woodwind
- 70. Woodwind
- 72. Chinese classification Based on material Stone Metal Silk Bamboo Wood Skin Gourd Earth
- 73. String instruments Chordophones Stringed instruments Bowed, plucked, struck Aerophones Wind instruments Percussion Body of instrument vs. membrane Electrophones Electromagnetic vs. digital vs. electric/ acoustic Hornbostel-Sachs classification Based on how the sound is made
- 74. String instrumentsHornbostel-Sachs classification Chordophones Stringed instruments Bowed, plucked, struck Aerophones Wind instruments Percussion Body of instrument vs. membrane Electrophones Electromagnetic vs. digital vs. electric/ acoustic http://www.scrgeek.com/music/muInstTax2.html
- 75. String instruments Chordophones Stringed instruments Bowed, plucked, struck Aerophones Wind instruments Percussion Body of instrument vs. membrane Electrophones Electromagnetic vs. digital vs. electric/ acoustic Pipe Aerophones (pitch dependent on pipe length) Free Aerophones (pitch not dependent on pipe length) Hornbostel-Sachs classification http://www.scrgeek.com/music/muInstTax2.html
- 76. String instruments Chordophones Stringed instruments Bowed, plucked, struck Aerophones Wind instruments Percussion Body of instrument vs. membrane Electrophones Electromagnetic vs. digital vs. electric/ acoustic Pipe Aerophones Membrane vibrates Idiophones Body of instrument or something inside vibrates Hornbostel-Sachs classification http://www.scrgeek.com/music/muInstTax2.html
- 77. String instruments Chordophones Stringed instruments Bowed, plucked, struck Aerophones Wind instruments Percussion Body of instrument vs. membrane Electrophones Electromagnetic vs. digital vs. electric/ acoustic Hornbostel-Sachs classification http://www.scrgeek.com/music/muInstTax2.html
- 78. Electrophones separate form factor from sound
- 80. We have more parameters we can manipulate Changing or sequencing sounds beyond playing notes
- 83. ALESIS MICRON
- 84. ALESIS MICRON
- 85. ALESIS MICRON - INSIDE OUT
- 86. BEHRINGER BCR-2000 IN ACTION http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pPsqoUsc9pI
- 91. Coarse and precision continuous control TURNTABLISM Knobs and faders together
- 92. CD SCRATCHING - NUMARK VINYL REPLICATION Personal video (not available online)
- 93. Theremin
- 94. CD SCRATCHING - NUMARK VINYL REPLICATION Personal video (not available online)
- 95. Continuous and discrete control Strips and pads
- 101. Discrete control with flexible arrangements Grids
- 102. AKAI MPC
- 103. DJ SHADOW, DJ NUMARK, CUT CHEMIST + 3 MPCS http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IQcyLMa716k
- 104. TENORI-ON
- 107. LITTLE BOOTS + TENORI-ON http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N6tLRCDqJ2c
- 111. CONTEXTUAL TOOLS JUST AN ESC KEY AWAY Personal video (not available online)
- 112. CAPS LOCK KEYBOARD Personal video (not available online)
- 116. Discrete and continuous control Touchscreens
- 118. Figure
- 119. Modstep
- 120. Roli Noise app
- 121. Role Noise app
- 122. Different controls
- 123. Popular User Interface controls StringsButtonsFaders Switches KnobsStrips
- 124. PluckPushPull StrumPress Tap Strike Bend StringsButtonsFaders Switches Turn Knobs Slide Strips Actions
- 125. PluckPushPull StrumPress Tap Strike Bend StringsButtonsFaders Switches Turn Knobs Slide Strips DiscreteFast, Continuous Discrete (changing) Flexible, Continuous Precise, Continuous Coarse, Continuous Characteristics
- 131. Interoperability
- 133. Music technology has been interoperable for over 30 years CV Gate Control Voltage Gate 1960s MIDI Musical Interchange Digital Interface 1982 OSC Open Sound Control 1997-ish
- 135. The standard allowed different instruments to "speak" with each other and with computers, and this spurred a rapid expansion of the sales and production of electronic instruments and music software. This interoperability allowed one device to be controlled from another, which reduced the amount of hardware musicians needed to own. MIDI's introduction coincided with the dawn of the personal computer era and the introductions of samplers and digital synthesizers. The creative possibilities brought about by MIDI technology have been credited as having helped to revive the music industry in the 1980s.
- 137. What are the possible futures? Future trajectories
- 138. Experimental
- 139. Theremin
- 140. Theremin
- 141. Tiring Coarse control Confusion with natural gestures Action != intention Gestural
- 142. Theremin
- 144. Grids
- 146. Physical interfaces with digital brains
- 147. A recipe for connected products? + +Physical Product Physical/ Digital Interface Digital Services Connected product =
- 148. Aesthetic Visceral. Visual, sonic, feel. Interactive Behavioural. Distribution of inputs and controls. Experiential Reflective. Fit with person’s context and ecosystems. Key levels of harmony Components of integrated experience + +Physical Product Physical/ Digital Interface Digital Services Connected product =
- 151. Ableton Link
- 153. The knob is here to stay
- 154. Korg Minologue
- 155. Distributed controls and displays
- 156. Distributed controls
- 157. Distributed knobs
- 159. One thing is for certain, although we are entering a digital future, the Knob is here to stay! http://knobfeel.tumblr.com/
- 160. The future is already here — it's just not very evenly distributed. William Gibson, 1993 Cliche slide
- 163. PluckPushPull StrumPress Tap Strike Bend StringsButtonsFaders Switches Turn Knobs Slide Strips DiscreteFast, Continuous Discrete (changing) Flexible, Continuous Precise, Continuous Coarse, Continuous Characteristics Actions
- 164. The future will be like today with little twists
- 165. What’s stopping progress? Current challenges
- 166. Lack of progressive UIs outside music tech Too much focus on touch screens
- 167. Few talking seriously about music tech Seen as niche or academic
- 168. Hardware is great but expensive to manufacture
- 169. Music tech is hard to learn + intimidating Tension between power and ease of learning
- 170. Are we designing a product or a component of a system? Instrument vs. studio
- 171. 1. Lack of progressive UIs 2. Few talking seriously about music tech 3. Hardware is great but expensive 4. (Music) tech is hard to learn + intimidating 5. Product vs system tension Current challenges
- 172. Where should we focus? The opportunities
- 173. Almost anything can be done physically or digitally now. Now it’s about choice. Understanding industrial Design
- 179. Inspire peripherals beyond music tech
- 181. Make and share what you do
- 182. The Internet of Ubiquitous Computing Information Appliance Things is growing Prototype out loud
- 183. Tinkertronics
- 184. SAM Labs
- 185. SAM Labs
- 186. Create new interactions out of old UI controls and patterns
- 187. Slick knobs
- 188. Loads of buttons
- 189. Create more accessible and usable solutions
- 190. Shun the shiny Don’t be a magpie to the magical
- 191. Adopt some UCD Understand your user’s needs and explore different iterations with them
- 192. Understand your users Understand their needs, observe them creating with their tools Explore prototypes Various fidelities, and continually iterate Refine based on feedback Take on the learnings and refine Launch and listen Never stop learning and improving 1 2 3 4
- 193. Peter Kirn, November 2 2015
- 194. Enable new sounds, inspire movements
- 197. 1. Create new instruments 2. Inspire peripherals beyond music 3. Make and share more 4. Create new interactions out of older UI 5. Improve accessibility and usability 6. Enable new sound movements Opportunities
- 198. Remember… We should be designing products and services that fit our worlds, and enhance our lives
- 200. That means… Get out of the labs and bring your work to the world
- 201. Final words… Herbie