PHENICX: Performances as Highly Enriched aN d Interactive Concert Experiences
Emília Gómez, Maarten Grachten, Alan Hanjalić, Jordi Janer, Sergi Jordà, Carles F. Julià, Cynthia C. S. Liem, Agustín Martorell, Markus Schedl, Gerhard Widmer · 2013
Mo dern digital multimedia and internet technology have radically changed the ways people find entertainment and discovernew interests online, seeminglywithout anyphysical or social barriers. Such new access paradigms are in sharp contrast with the traditional means of entertainment. An illustrative example of this is live music concert performances that are largely being attended by dedicated audiences only. ThispapersintroducesthePHENICX project,whichaims at enriching traditional concert experiences by using stateof-the-artmultimediaandinternettechnologies. Theproject focuses on classical music and its main goal is twofold: (a) to make live concerts appealing to potential new audience and (b) to maximize the quality of concert experience for everyone. Concerts will then become multimodal, multi-perspective and multilayer digital artifacts that can be easily explored, customized, personalized, (re)enjoyed and shared among the users. The paper presents the main scientific objectives on the project, provides a state of the art review on related research and presents the main challenges to be addressed.