Transitioning Between Audience and Performer: Co-Designing Interactive Music Performances with Children

TL;DR

This paper explores how children want to interact with live music performances through co-design sessions, resulting in a spectrum of interactive opportunities that enhance engagement from the child's perspective.

Contribution

It introduces a novel Spectrum of Audience Interactivity based on co-design sessions with children, guiding future interactive music performance designs.

Findings

Children desire diverse interactive experiences during performances

A spectrum of audience interactivity was developed from co-design insights

Design considerations for engaging child audiences in live music

Abstract

Live interactions have the potential to meaningfully engage audiences during musical performances, and modern technologies promise unique ways to facilitate these interactions. This work presents findings from three co-design sessions with children that investigated how audiences might want to interact with live music performances, including design considerations and opportunities. Findings from these sessions also formed a Spectrum of Audience Interactivity in live musical performances, outlining ways to encourage interactivity in music performances from the child perspective.