One-Man Orchestra: Conducting Smartphone Orchestra

This work presents a new platform for performing one-man orchestra. The conductor is the only human involved, who uses traditional bimanual conducting gestures to interactively direct the performance of smartphones instead of human performers in a real-world orchestra. Each smartphone acts as a virtual performer who plays a certain music instrument like piano and violin. Our work not only allows ordinary people to experience music conducting but also provides a training platform so that students can practice music conducting with a unique listening experience. One-man orchestra consists of one human conductor, two Leap motion controllers and a varying number of smartphones.

Chun Kit Tsui
City University of Hong Kong

Chi Hei Law
City University of Hong Kong

Hongbo Fu
City University of Hong Kong