Wijam: A Mobile Collaborative Improvisation Platform Under Master-Players Paradigm
Jun-qi Deng, Francis Chi-Moon Lau, Ho-Cheung Ng, Yu‐Kwong Ricky Kwok, Hung-Kwan Chen, Yuheng Liu · Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research) · 2014
Music jamming is an extremely difficult task for musical novices. Trying to extend this meaningful activity, which can be highly enjoyable, to a larger recipient group, we present WIJAM, a mobile application for an ad-hoc group of musical novices to perform improvisation along with a music master. In this ``master-players" paradigm, the master offers a music backing, orchestrates the musical flow, and gives feedbacks to the players; the players improvise by tapping and sketching on their smartphones. We believe that this paradigm can be a significant contribution to the possibility of music playing by a group of novices with no instrumental training leading to decent musical results.