MirrorFugue for the Composer, Performer and Improviser

This video illustrates the usage of an integrated workbench for learning and composing music on the piano. Built on a Yamaha Disklavier augmented with projection, the system suports music represented either as symbolic notation or as MirrorFugue, where virtual hands projected on the keyboard appear to physically plays the piano [1]. The story of two friends collaborating on the creation of an original composition depicts how the system may be used to record musical ideas on the fly, how to annotate scores with playing, and how these annotations may aid the learning of expressive nuance. Built on a semi-functioning prototype, this video explores how the symbolic and embodied understandings of music may complement each other in the learning and creative process.