U . s . i . c . ( musical utility software for interactive creations ) : the multipurpose motion-sound mapping platform

With the advent of embodied interaction, research on interactive sonification has rapidly been increasing. There have been consistent efforts on the enhancement of motionsound mappings, but still more improvements can be made. The goal of the Musical Utility Software for Interactive Creations (M.U.S.I.C.) platform is to provide a flexible, robust, and easy to use interactive GUI for taking motion data from other devices or software and mapping them to sound or music. In the M.U.S.I.C. platform, users can perform actions when the data meet user-generated conditions. Taking inspiration from the previous motion-sound mapping software, Interactive Sonification Markup Language (ISML), the M.U.S.I.C. structure allows for changes to be both dynamic and static, be it to load the program from launch or to make changes in real-time. Furthermore, any device’s data can be used on-the-fly. After introducing the design and implementation of M.U.S.I.C., we discuss its comparisons with ISML and future plans.