*forwarding for a friend - if interested in helping clapping music game.* *Steve Reich's Clapping Music* is a game-based app for iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad inspired by a piece of music called Clapping Music, by the composer Steve Reich. It is performed by two people clapping one simple rhythmic pattern together but is harder than it looks! It has inspired all sorts of people from the famous percussionist Evelyn Glennie to David Bowie. The app also includes lots of additional content about Steve Reich and minimalist music, and unique recordings from the London Sinfonietta, including another piece by Steve Reich called Electric Counterpoint.
The game has been developed by a team from three organisations - The London Sinfonietta, Touchpress, and Queen Mary University of London and is funded by The Digital R&D Fund for the Arts. It will be free for anyone to download from iTunes from late June 2015. You can find out more about the app here http://clappingmusicapp.com and the associated research project here http://cogsci.eecs.qmul.ac.uk/clappingmusicresearch/Home.html. There is an opportunity to win one of 10 £50 Amazon gift vouchers for taking part in this study. All you need to do to take part is play the game and complete three online surveys during the period from app launch to August 7th 2015; one before you download the app, another after playing for a little while, then another two weeks later. The surveys include questions about your musical experience, age and music listening habits and preferences. We will download your playing data from the game and look at this as well. The information sheet attached describes the study in more detail and what you will need to take part. You don’t need to be a musician to play, in fact we would love as many people as possible to download it and get tapping and clapping! As a thank you, we will draw 10 people at random from the participants who have completed and submitted all three surveys and enter them into a draw to enter one of 10 Amazon £50 gift cards. It would be great if you could forward this to any lists or people that you think might be interested. We are also running a separate parallel study for under 16’s which will start a little later. If you have any questions, or would like to sign up, please contact [email protected]. - - - - - - - - - - Sam Duffy Cognitive Science Research Group Media & Arts Technology DTC Room CS416 Computer Science Building Queen Mary, University of London Mile End Road E1 4NS -- ************************** "All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
_______________________________________________ NetBehaviour mailing list [email protected] http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
