AWARD YEAR
2015
CATEGORY
Play & Learning
GOALS
Balance Human & Artificial Intelligence
KEYWORDS
interaction, Music, technology
COUNTRY
United States of America
DESIGNED BY
Xiao Xiao, MIT Media Lab
WEBSITE
http://web.media.mit.edu/~x_x/mirrorfugue/
MIRRORFUGUE
MirrorFugue is a set of interfaces for the piano to visualize the gesture of a performance.
Based on the idea that the visibility of gesture contributes to learning and synchronization, MirrorFugue displays the hand and body movements of piano playing using metaphors from the physical world to connect musicians from disparate spaces and times.
MirrorFugue can be used in remote lessons to enable teachers and students to see each other's playing. It could also be used to playback recordings of the self and others. A student can use MirrorFugue for practice support by recording a portion of a piece playing a duet with the recording. By displaying the body and the hands at full scale on the surface of the instrument, MirrorFugue evokes the presence of a pianist with a sense of intimate emotional expression.