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Imagine a room where music is
produced by touching the wall or the
floor. Imagine a room where physical
gestures are mapped to notes and
harmony. Imagine a room with new
musical instruments designed to let
individuals without any formal music
training create and perform
meaningful music.
EAMIR (Electro-Acoustic
Musically Interactive
Room) is an interactive
music system and open-source
software project that allows individuals to create a
unique, tonal musical expression
without the physical and technical
limitations found in the performance
of traditional acoustic instruments.
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Unmodified, inexpensive, and
accessible instruments/interfaces connect with
the EAMIR software designed to allow
individuals to create tonal music by
using physical gestures that
individuals are familiar with. The EAMIR instruments are accessible
interfaces such as game controllers,
computer keyboards & mice, cameras,
and other devices and sensors that can be
performed with
by stepping on a foam floor tile,
touching an LCD screen, waving a
hand in the air. Each of these
gestures produce a meaningful series
of musical events or sounds that can
be mapped to a single 7-note mode.
With the EAMIR Software Development
Kit (SDK), the software is limitlessly
and easily customizable.
EAMIR.org is
an open-source community for users
seeking to implement EAMIR in their
school, home, or anywhere else. For
information on how to setup an EAMIR, see the configuration section.
For a list of projects that utilize EAMIR,
visit the projects section. For videos
and audio or realized EAMIR
performances, visit the multimedia
section.
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