The Interactive DJ: Audience Participation in a Live DJ Performance Setting
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Abstract
The goal of this project was to develop a live audience engagement tool for DJs. At the project’s inception in the fall of 2022, there were already a number of tools available to provide audiences with an opportunity to give musical input - namely Festify, LimeDJ, and RequestNow. After critically analyzing the aforementioned tools, the author designed and held a DJ set wherein the audience voted for styles of music and he created mashups of the two most-voted-for styles. Having a DJ act as both programmer and performer led to some significant obstacles in the performance not limited to heavy computer CPU load; nevertheless, the project became a use-case for quickly evolving AI stem generators (particularly Serato Stems1) and the author intends to recreate the project as a game for DJs to test their transition and mixing skills.
Publication Date
7-1-2023
Campus
Valencia (Spain) Campus
Recommended Citation
Iacono, Nicholas, "The Interactive DJ: Audience Participation in a Live DJ Performance Setting" (2023). Music Production, Technology, and Innovation. 331.
https://remix.berklee.edu/graduate-studies-production-technology/331