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YARMI

YARMI is an acronym standig for both Yarmi is an Augmented Reality Musical Instrument and Yet Another Ridiculous Musical Interface, and consists on a -still under development- collaborative, networked, tangible, musical instrument.

The instrument aims to provide a flexible and responsive musical experience, while -at the same time- allowing the spectators to understand what the musicians are doing (that is, to decode the performers’ gestures).

The instrument is distributed and multi-user. It consists on several stations (independent tabletop interfaces) which are networked and get synchronized automatically.

To allow for the audience decodification, all the visual feedback that the instrument provides is situated in and augmented reality space that is shared between the musicians and the public.

The image below is a sketch of the layout of a station’s interface.

YARMI - station scheme

station scheme

(click for full size, hit your browser’s back button to come back here).

The project is still under developement. Ernesto Rodriguez and Juan Fabrizio Castro participated in it, both in the initial prototypes and in the design of the instrument.

Now, with a revised (and improved) design, it is being implemented by undergraduate students Bruno Azzinari, Pablo Bounous, and Gastón Caldeiro

The paper presented at NIME’09 can be found here.

Blow is a demo run, with only one station, in our lab at the School of Engineering(undergrad students appearing in the video!):

yarmi // november 2010 from krahd on Vimeo.