Research article summary (published 30 Jul 2009):

Exploring new kinds of relationships using generative music-making software.

Full Abstract

This project focuses upon the use of jam2jam, a generative computer system, to increase access to improvization experiences for children and to facilitate new kinds of relationships with artists. The network jamming system uses visual and audio cultural materials to enable communities to be expressive with artistic materials that they value as a community. As the system is part of a network, performances can be shared between communities at great distances and recordings of performances can be uploaded to a digital social network (http://www.jam2jam.com/) and shared both locally and with the wider community. This paper examines a preliminary project where artwork made by Indigenous mental health clients in Far North Queensland was digitized and given to a group of 8-12-year-old urban Indigenous children to 'improvize' with and make music/video clips using the jam2jam instrument. It seeks to generate a discussion and identify applications within creative arts-led community health settings to facilitate new kinds of relationships with self, peers, local community, culture and artists through collaborative improvization.

Author information

Author/s: Dillon, Steve (S); Jones, Anita (A);

Affiliation: Network Jamming, Queensland University of Technology Faculty of Creative Industries/Australasian CRC for Interactive Design, Australia. sc.dillon(-atsign-)qut.edu.au

Journal and publication information

Publication Type: Journal Article; Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

Journal: Australasian psychiatry : bulletin of Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists (Australas Psychiatry), published in England. (Language: eng)

Reference: 2009-Aug; vol 17 Suppl 1 (issue ) : pp S163-6

Dates: Created 2009/07/06; Completed 2009/09/23;

PMID: 19579134, status: MEDLINE (last retrieval date: 9/23/2009, IMS Date: )

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Art Child Culture Female Humans Male

Male Music Oceanic Ancestry Group Queensland Social Environment Software

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