A Study on Potential of Integrating Multimodal Interaction into Musical Conducting Education

TL;DR

This paper explores the potential of integrating multimodal interaction, like gesture and speech, into musical conducting education to enhance learning methods, based on interviews with conductors and analysis of traditional teaching practices.

Contribution

It analyzes the feasibility of combining vision-based gestures and speech interaction in conducting education, proposing a novel approach to modernize traditional methods.

Findings

Conductors' experiences highlight key educational focus areas.

Multimodal interaction could enhance engagement and understanding.

Traditional education emphasizes manual gesture learning.

Abstract

With the rapid development of computer technology, computer music has begun to appear in the laboratory. Many potential utility of computer music is gradually increasing. The purpose of this paper is attempted to analyze the possibility of integrating multimodal interaction such as vision-based hand gesture and speech interaction into musical conducting education. To achieve this purpose, this paper is focus on discuss some related research and the traditional musical conducting education. To do so, six musical conductors had been interviewed to share their musical conducting learning/ teaching experience. These interviews had been analyzed in this paper to show the syllabus and the focus of musical conducting education for beginners.