Adaptive Use Musical Instrument

You can now update your AUMIs to version 2.2.3! Details on http://aumiapp.com!

aumiapp.com

Here's something I'm working on in AUMI, it's pretty experimental, but in some cases, real fun!

AUMI Pose detecting has two modes: registering and running.
Registering looks for stable images (really fingerprints of stable images) that are different from ones it "knows" about already. The first registered pose is the "no pose" that is a way to purposefully not play a note.
Subsequent saved poses map 1-to-1 to sound boxes.
When running, the incoming video is fingerprinted and then compared to the pose collection. The winner moves the cursor to that sound box!

That means every other aspect of AUMI is available through these detected poses.

You can't save them, because the image fingerprints are too closely related to the original images it's working with, but If I change the fingerprint algorithm to be a little more loose, maybe that will make sense.

AUMI pose detector demo_smaller.mp4 Shared with Dropbox

Upcoming feature in the next AUMI; some new tone row based scales: chromatic, diatonic, and pentatonic.

AUMI Tone Rows 2024-07-18.mov Shared with Dropbox

AUMI Merch! The newer design is inset a little though:
https://jhhl.threadless.com/designs/adaptive-use-musical-instrument

For a while I've been thinking of adding a "silence" button that works like the "send to listeners" feature.
Previously, the easiest way to quiet down listener devices was to send them a "silent" setup! That's a little radical and of course resets all their carefully setup setups.
So I added new buttons to
remotely turn off,
restore it the was it was (that is, if it was off already, it won't turn it on),
toggle and
turn on
This lets the room quiet down quickly for those who can get to the SILENCE button.

Apple also tossed a wrench in the works by now not allowing devices to identify themselves with the names you gave them.
For instance, my iPad "lacewing" identifies as "iPad". AUMI uses these ids to identify devices that are "listening".
So I added a way to rename your device for AUMI sharing purposes. You can give them any name you like, which is actually a pretty good thing.

so that'll be in the next release (2.2.3).

AUMI 2.2.2 is in the store! It turns out the devices on iOSes earlier than iOS17 would get a crash instead of AUMI! Now it should work - download it and try it out! There is one other (weird) feature, that you can now fiddle with the sound order of the sound files of even melodic instruments! That means you can make up "tunings" that are not normally in the "tunings" list if you are extrememly clever.

Hey Adaptive Users! There's a new AUMI , 2.2.1, available for you to download and update from the App store! It's actually a pretty extensive bunch of tweaks! Try it, and read all about it! http://aumiapp.com/AUMI-2.2.1.php

The long-awaited AUMI book, Improvising Across Abilities will be released in February 2024!

Improvising Across Abilities Improvising Across Abilities: Pauline Oliveros and the Adaptive Use Musical Instrument (AUMI) brings together scholars, musicians, and family members of people with disabilities to collectively recount ...

The New AUMI (iOs/Mac Silicon desktop) has a new rhythm in it: Take 5:

AUMI Take 5 demo #aumi #aumiapp The newest AUMI will have the "Take 5" 5/4 rhythm in it. You can play it as percussion or ass a melodic instrument with various scales, and add choring to it...

The Zoom video archive of Henry Lowengard's Jan. 26 2023 Disabilities Studies Seminar talk on AUMI Together and other AUMI subjects is up for viewing on the aumiapp.com website.

http://aumiapp.com

AUMI - Welcome The AUMI iOS Version 2.2 is available, and is free! click here: for more information about AUMI 2.2. click here: for the list of available AUMI Instruments. Click below to download it from the App Store if you are reading this on an iOS device.

Today!

DISABILITY STUDIES SEMINAR

Henry Lowengard
Independent app developer and musician

“AUMI Together”

Interviewed by Ray Mizumura-Pence and Sherrie Tucker
American Studies, University of Kansas

Thursday 26 January
3:00 pm - 4:30 pm Central (4:00 Eastern, 2:00 Mountain, 1:00 Pacific)

This seminar session will be held virtually via Zoom .
DM me (Jhh Löwengard) for the Zoom connection info, or email [email protected]

In lieu of a pre-circulated paper, the speaker asks that you peruse this description of the AUMI Together project that he will be speaking about: https://aumiapp.com/aumitogether.php

He also invites you to download the current version of the Adaptive Use Musical Instrument (AUMI) and give it a try. http://aumiapp.com/ AUMI is a free download instrument that is intended to be playable by everyone. It adapts to body movement. Henry Lowengard is the iOS developer for AUMI (for iPads and iPhones) and is currently developing a browser-based version of AUMI that will work on any device that connects to the internet and that has a camera. He adds, "If anyone is curious about the more technical aspects, and I hope someone is, there's the AUMI Together Wiki up on github: https://github.com/jhhl/AUMI-Together/wiki." Seminar directors and moderators of this session Ray Mizumura-Pence and Sherrie Tucker are long-time AUMI users and members of KU AUMI-InterArts, and will share some of the ways that AUMI has been used at KU and in Lawrence to facilitate and enhance improvisational music-making across abilities.

AUMI - Welcome The AUMI iOS Version 2.2 is available, and is free! click here: for more information about AUMI 2.2. click here: for the list of available AUMI Instruments. Click below to download it from the App Store if you are reading this on an iOS device.

AUMI 2.2 for iOS and Mac Os (M1) is live in the App Store now!
Still free as it's been since 2017!

AUMI - Welcome The AUMI iOS Version 2.1.4 is available, and is free! click here: for more information about AUMI 2.1. click here: for the list of available AUMI 2.1+ Instruments. Click below to download it from the App Store if you are reading this on an iOS device.