Dynamic Social Interaction in a Collective Mobile Music Performance

This paper presents the plan of action for a research project that is in the early stages of investigating social interaction in a group improvisation and reflecting the results in its implementation. The research purports the design of an interactive performance system that enables audience participation in an improvisational mobile music performance. The main emphasis of the research is to understand more about social behavior in collective music making processes through audience-participants' gestures in the moment of playing. Group improvisation shifts interaction and participatory behavior into a social level. The role of the audience is critical, not only for the design process of the research, but also for the experience of such an experimental music.