by Mark Kleback

musicalturk.com

Background

Question

Can the audience of a music venue participate in a musical performance?

Interaction

Interaction

Interaction

Musical Turk

Website

A system for accepting and organizing crowd-sourced samples

Website

Website

Performance

Musical Turk

Musical Turk

Musical Turk

Interface

Build easy-to-use interfaces for large crowds of people to use

Interface

Interface

Interface

Performances

Death By Audio - private party

Inputs: microphone, drum pad, synthesizer

30 Participants

75 Minute Performance

Death By Audio Show

Death By Audio Show

Interesting Musically

Worked well for a small group

Installation?

Performances

La Sala - public venue

Inputs: microphone

30 Participants

45 Minute Performance

La Sala

La Sala

Performances

Secret Project Robot

Live Musicians (guitar and saxophone)

Performance plus participation

50 Participants

45 Minute Performance

Secret Project Robot

Feedback

"This is exactly what I expected Musical Turk to sound like"

"I love the huge buttons. It makes the instrument more approachable"

"It feels like I'm at a Velvet Underground show at the Factory"

User Scenarios

On website

At performance venue

Live streaming during performance

Location based

Going Further

Performative or Exploratory?

Add curation

How to deal with large crowds

More interesting interfaces

Final Interface Design

Live Demo

Thanks!

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