Sophia Ppali
ABSTRACT
The COVID-19 pandemic has significantly transformed the realm of music performance and consumption, prompting the adoption of novel technologies and interaction methods for musicians and audiences alike. My thesis delves into the design space of remote music performances, concentrating on understanding user needs and preferences as well as exploring the potential of emerging technologies, such as extended reality, to fulfil these desires. The work aims to provide valuable insights into how musicians and audiences can adeptly navigate the swiftly evolving landscape while also informing the creation of more inclusive and inventive solutions that enable individuals to engage with music from anywhere and everywhere.
By doing so, my research aspires to offer inspirational starting points for future work and design initiatives that ultimately enhance the overall experience of music performed and experienced remotely for both musicians and audiences in the post-pandemic world.
- Ferran Altarriba Bertran, Laura Bisbe Armengol, Cameron Cooke, Ivy Chen, Victor Dong, Binaisha Dastoor, Kelsea Tadano, Fyez Dean, Jessalyn Wang, Adrià Altarriba Bertran, Jared Duval, and Katherine Isbister. 2022. Co-Imagining the Future of Playable Cities: A Bottom-Up, Multi-Stakeholder Speculative Inquiry into the Playful Potential of Urban Technology. In Proceedings of the 2022 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems(CHI ’22). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 1–19. https://doi.org/10.1145/3491102.3501860Google Scholar
Digital Library
- Ferran Altarriba Bertran, Alexandra Pometko, Muskan Gupta, Lauren Wilcox, Reeta Banerjee, and Katherine Isbister. 2021. The Playful Potential of Shared Mealtime: A Speculative Catalog of Playful Technologies for Day-to-day Social Eating Experiences. Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction 5, CHI PLAY (Oct. 2021), 267:1–267:26. https://doi.org/10.1145/3474694Google ScholarDigital Library
- Boyd Branch, Christos Efstratiou, Piotr Mirowski, Kory W. Mathewson, and Paul Allain. 2021. Tele-Immersive Improv: Effects of Immersive Visualisations on Rehearsing and Performing Theatre Online. In Proceedings of the 2021 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems(CHI ’21). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 1–13. https://doi.org/10.1145/3411764.3445310Google ScholarDigital Library
- Boyd Branch, Piotr Mirowski, Sophia Ppali, Rocio Von Jungenfeld, Paul Allain, and Christos Efstratiou. 2023. Mirror Placement Matters in Remote Collaboration. In Extended Abstracts of the 2023 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems(CHI EA ’23). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 1–8. https://doi.org/10.1145/3544549.3585798Google ScholarDigital Library
- Carrie J Cai, Michelle Carney, Nida Zada, and Michael Terry. 2021. Breakdowns and Breakthroughs: Observing Musicians’ Responses to the COVID-19 Pandemic. In Proceedings of the 2021 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. ACM, Yokohama Japan, 1–13. https://doi.org/10.1145/3411764.3445192Google ScholarDigital Library
- Digital Catapult. 2020. Immersive Audience Journey Report. Technical Report. Digital Catapult. https://audienceofthefuture.live/immersive-audience-journey/Google Scholar
- Jean-Philippe Charron. 2017. Music Audiences 3.0: Concert-Goers’ Psychological Motivations at the Dawn of Virtual Reality. Frontiers in Psychology 8 (2017). https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2017.00800Google Scholar
- Alexandra Covaci, Khawla Alhasan, Mayank Loonker, Bernardine Farrell, Luma Tabbaa, Sophia Ppali, and Chee Siang Ang. 2023. No Pie in the (Digital) Sky: Co-Imagining the Food Metaverse. In Proceedings of the 2023 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems(CHI ’23). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 1–17. https://doi.org/10.1145/3544548.3581305Google ScholarDigital Library
- Alexandra Covaci, Longhao Zou, Irina Tal, Gabriel-Miro Muntean, and Gheorghita Ghinea. 2018. Is Multimedia Multisensorial? - A Review of Mulsemedia Systems. Comput. Surveys 51, 5 (Sept. 2018), 91:1–91:35. https://doi.org/10.1145/3233774Google ScholarDigital Library
- William Gaver. 2012. What should we expect from research through design?. In Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems(CHI ’12). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 937–946. https://doi.org/10.1145/2207676.2208538Google ScholarDigital Library
- Henrik Jodén and Jacob Strandell. 2022. Building viewer engagement through interaction rituals on Twitch.tv. Information, Communication & Society 25, 13 (Oct. 2022), 1969–1986. https://doi.org/10.1080/1369118X.2021.1913211 Publisher: Routledge _eprint: https://doi.org/10.1080/1369118X.2021.1913211.Google Scholar
- Olena Khlystova, Yelena Kalyuzhnova, and Maksim Belitski. 2022. The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the creative industries: A literature review and future research agenda. Journal of Business Research 139 (Feb. 2022), 1192–1210. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jbusres.2021.09.062Google ScholarCross Ref
- Vali Lalioti, Sophia Ppali, Andrew J. Thomas, Ragnar Hrafnkelsson, Mick Grierson, Chee Siang Ang, B. S. Wohl, and Alexandra Covaci. 2021. VR Rehearse & Perform - A platform for rehearsing in Virtual Reality. In Proceedings of the 27th ACM Symposium on Virtual Reality Software and Technology(VRST ’21). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 1–3. https://doi.org/10.1145/3489849.3489896Google ScholarDigital Library
- Gabrielle Lennox and Hannah Mason. 2022. Virtual Dream Reality Check: A Case of Interactive Digital Theatre from the Royal Shakespeare Company. Body, Space & Technology 21, 1 (Feb. 2022). https://doi.org/10.16995/bst.7967 Number: 1 Publisher: The Open Library of Humanities.Google ScholarCross Ref
- Mayank Loonker, Sophia Ppali, Rocio von Jungenfeld, Christos Efstratiou, and Alexandra Covaci. 2022. “I Was Holding a Magic Box”: Investigating the Effects of Private and Projected Displays in Outdoor Heritage Walks. In Designing Interactive Systems Conference (Virtual Event, Australia) (DIS ’22). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 1565–1580. https://doi.org/10.1145/3532106.3533468Google ScholarDigital Library
- Sophia Ppali, Boyd Branch, Alexandra Covaci, Bea Wohl, and Vali Lalioti. 2022. Performances’ 22: A Workshop on Designing the Performances of the Future at IMX 2022. (2022).Google Scholar
- Sophia Ppali, Vali Lalioti, Boyd Branch, Chee Siang Ang, Andrew J. Thomas, Bea S. Wohl, and Alexandra Covaci. 2022. Keep the VRhythm going: A musician-centred study investigating how Virtual Reality can support creative musical practice. In Proceedings of the 2022 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems(CHI ’22). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 1–19. https://doi.org/10.1145/3491102.3501922Google ScholarDigital Library
- Neta Spiro, Rosie Perkins, Sasha Kaye, Urszula Tymoszuk, Adele Mason-Bertrand, Isabelle Cossette, Solange Glasser, and Aaron Williamon. 2021. The Effects of COVID-19 Lockdown 1.0 on Working Patterns, Income, and Wellbeing Among Performing Arts Professionals in the United Kingdom (April–June 2020). Frontiers in Psychology 11 (2021). https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2020.594086Google Scholar
- Alina Striner, Sarah Halpin, Thomas Röggla, and Pablo Cesar. 2021. Towards Immersive and Social Audience Experience in Remote VR Opera. In ACM International Conference on Interactive Media Experiences(IMX ’21). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 311–318. https://doi.org/10.1145/3452918.3465490Google ScholarDigital Library
- Femke Vandenberg. 2022. Put Your “Hand Emotes in the Air:” Twitch Concerts as Unsuccessful Large-Scale Interaction Rituals. Symbolic Interaction 45, 3 (2022), 425–448. https://doi.org/10.1002/symb.605 _eprint: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1002/symb.605.Google ScholarCross Ref
- A. Williamon, G. Waddell, N. Spiro, R. Perkins, C. Shaughnessy, A. Campbell, M. Miraldo, V. Lalioti, and S. Ppali. 2022. Policy brief: HEartS professional: the Health, Economic and Social impact of COVID-19 on Professionals in the ARTs: findings and policy implications for cultural recovery. https://pandemicandbeyond.exeter.ac.uk/ Publisher: The Pandemic and Beyond.Google Scholar
Index Terms
- Music from Anywhere & Everywhere: Exploring the design space of remote music performance
Recommendations
Music/lyrics composition system considering user's image and music genre
SMC'09: Proceedings of the 2009 IEEE international conference on Systems, Man and CyberneticsThis paper proposes a music/lyrics composition system consisting of two sections, a lyric composing section and a music composing section, which considers user's image of a song and music genre. First of all, a user has an image of music/lyrics to ...
Harmony, the union of music and art
EVA '17: Proceedings of the conference on Electronic Visualisation and the ArtsThis paper discusses the creative process explored in the creation of the project A Hidden Order by artist Sama Mara and composer Lee Westwood. A Hidden Order is an audio-visual project merging the worlds of Traditional Islamic Art & Western ...
Autonomous evolutionary music composer
GECCO '06: Proceedings of the 8th annual conference on Genetic and evolutionary computationA second-generation autonomous music composition tool is developed using Genetic Algorithms. The composition is conducted in two Stages. The first Stage generates and identifies musically sound patterns (motifs). In the second Stage, methods to combine ...
Comments