Tomas Laurenzo

2009–ongoing

YARMI

An augmented-reality musical instrument begun in 2009, now being reconsidered as an ensemble of augmented musical stations.

Augmented-reality musical instrument

Diagram of a YARMI station showing sequencer tracks, sample and effect tokens, and its connection to a server.
Original YARMI station and sequencer, 2009. Figure 1 from the NIME paper; this documents the original instrument, not YARMI 2.

YARMI began as an augmented-reality musical instrument in which tracked physical objects could be used to construct and manipulate musical relationships. It was documented at NIME 2009 and revisited in A New Iteration of YARMI.

The ongoing YARMI 2 project is a redesign rather than a reconstruction of the original system. Its proposed structure is an ensemble of independently playable augmented musical stations, in which a performer’s actions, their computational transformation and the resulting music remain visibly connected.

YARMI 2 is in development.

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