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Adaptive Use Musical Instruments (AUMI) interface enables students who have very little voluntary movement or other varieties of impairments to create and perform electronic sounds and sequences in order to participate in solo and ensemble electronic music improvisation and composition.
An original member of the AUMI team, programmer and RPI student Zane van Duzen, developed an initial computer program that enabled students with very limited mobility (head turning only) to generate musical rhythms and scalar patterns.
The AUMI program incorporates camera tracking so that no invasive devices are necessary. Their improvised movements enables the students to create rhythmic patterns and to communicate with others musically in the drum class led by Occupational Therapist Leaf Miller of Abilities First, Inc.
The AUMI program continues to be revised and improved with input from the technologists, students, therapists and feedback from registered users. A training program for therapists, aides, parents and teachers in the use of the AUMI interface and improvisation is now available. The latest initiative is the development of an AUMI iPad App.
AUMI Researchers include:
Deep Listening Institute, Ltd.
Staff and students of Abilities First, Inc.
Faculty and students of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Scholars and students of ICASP from University of Guelph, Guelph Ontario
All those who download and use the AUMI interface, currently over 500 registered.
AUMI Programmers include:
Zane Van Duzen
Zevin Polzin
Doug Van Nort
Jaclyn Heyen
Ian Hattwick
Henry Lowengard
