We have explored how VR could benefit to music. This led to the design of a new virtual instrument, DRILE, which is based on 3D reactive widgets and hierarchical live-looping structures. We also designed a new input device dedicated to musical expression in immersive virtual environments, PIIVERT.

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Video

Drile video 2 from Florent Berthaut on Vimeo.

Publications

Interacting with 3D Reactive Widgets for Musical Performance.
Florent Berthaut, Myriam Desainte-Catherine, Martin Hachet
Journal of New Music Research, Vol 40 - Issue 3, 2011

DRILE: an immersive environment for hierarchical live-looping
Florent Berthaut, Myriam Desainte Catherine, Martin Hachet
New Interfaces for Musical Expression (NIME) - 2010

Piivert: Percussion Interaction for Immersive Virtual Environments
Florent Berthaut, Martin Hachet, Myriam Desainte Catherine
IEEE 3DUI - Symposium on 3D User Interfaces (4 pages) - 2010

Combining audiovisual mappings for 3D musical interaction
Florent Berthaut, Myriam Desainte Catherine, Martin Hachet
International Computer Music Conference (ICMC) - 2010

Interaction with the 3D reactive widgets for musical performance
Florent Berthaut, Myriam Desainte-Catherine, Martin Hachet
Brazilian Symposium on Computer Music (SBCM) - 2009

Opportunistic Music
Martin Hachet, Arash Kian, Florent Berthaut, Jean-Sebastien Franco, Myriam Desainte Catherine
JVRC 2009 (EGVE - ICAT - EuroVR)- December 2009

Contact

Florent Berthaut
Martin Hachet
Myriam Desainte-Catherine

Université Bordeaux 1
INRIA Bordeaux
LaBRI
SCRIME