MixPlore: A cocktail-based media performance using Tangible User Interfaces

Abstract

This paper presents MixPlore, a framework for a cocktail-based live media performance. It aims to maximize the pleasure of mixology, presenting the cocktail as a plentiful art medium where people can fully enjoy new synesthetic contents by the integration of bartending and musical creation. For this, we fabricated Tangible User Interfaces (TUIs): tin, glass, muddler, and costume display, etc. The basic idea of performance and music composition is to follow the process of making cocktails. At the end of every repertoire, the performer provides the resultant 'sonic cocktails' to audience. © 2010 Institute for Computer Sciences, Social-Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering.