Approaches to Making Live Code Accessible in a Mixed-Vision Music Ensemble

William Christopher Payne; Xinran Shen; Eric Xu; Matthew Kaney; Maya Graves; Matthew Herrera; Madeline Mau; Diana Murray; Vinnie Wang; Amy Hurst

doi:10.1145/3597638.3614489

Approaches to Making Live Code Accessible in a Mixed-Vision Music Ensemble

William Christopher Payne, Xinran Shen, Eric Xu, Matthew Kaney, Maya Graves, Matthew Herrera, Madeline Mau, Diana Murray, Vinnie Wang, Amy Hurst

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Abstract

The Fil Laptop Orchestra, aka FiLOrk, is an electronic music ensemble that performs through live coding, i.e. collaboratively editing in a shared document to generate sound. In forming FiLOrk, we set out to use music performance and tactile graphics to address a lack of accessible tools and curricula for teaching Blind and Visually Impaired (BVI) people to code. In this poster, researchers and the high school members of FiLOrk, who use screen readers and magnification, report their experiences composing and performing two original works that incorporate assistive technologies. We discuss a shift from instruction to open-ended experimentation, and we highlight technical and pedagogical opportunities for making live coding more accessible.

Original language	English (US)
Title of host publication	ASSETS 2023 - Proceedings of the 25th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility
Publisher	Association for Computing Machinery, Inc
ISBN (Electronic)	9798400702204
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/3597638.3614489
State	Published - Oct 22 2023
Event	25th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility, ASSETS 2023 - New York, United States Duration: Oct 23 2023 → Oct 25 2023

Publication series

Name	ASSETS 2023 - Proceedings of the 25th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility

Conference

Conference	25th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility, ASSETS 2023
Country/Territory	United States
City	New York
Period	10/23/23 → 10/25/23

Keywords

Accessibility
Blindness
Electronic Music
Laptop Ensemble
Live Coding
Tidal Cycles
Vision Impairment

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Computer Networks and Communications
Hardware and Architecture
Human-Computer Interaction
Computer Graphics and Computer-Aided Design
Software

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Payne, W. C., Shen, X., Xu, E., Kaney, M., Graves, M., Herrera, M., Mau, M., Murray, D., Wang, V., & Hurst, A. (2023). Approaches to Making Live Code Accessible in a Mixed-Vision Music Ensemble. In ASSETS 2023 - Proceedings of the 25th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility Article 78 (ASSETS 2023 - Proceedings of the 25th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility). Association for Computing Machinery, Inc. https://doi.org/10.1145/3597638.3614489

Approaches to Making Live Code Accessible in a Mixed-Vision Music Ensemble. / Payne, William Christopher; Shen, Xinran; Xu, Eric et al.
ASSETS 2023 - Proceedings of the 25th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility. Association for Computing Machinery, Inc, 2023. 78 (ASSETS 2023 - Proceedings of the 25th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility).

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution

Payne, WC, Shen, X, Xu, E, Kaney, M, Graves, M, Herrera, M, Mau, M, Murray, D, Wang, V & Hurst, A 2023, Approaches to Making Live Code Accessible in a Mixed-Vision Music Ensemble. in ASSETS 2023 - Proceedings of the 25th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility., 78, ASSETS 2023 - Proceedings of the 25th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility, Association for Computing Machinery, Inc, 25th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility, ASSETS 2023, New York, United States, 10/23/23. https://doi.org/10.1145/3597638.3614489

Payne WC, Shen X, Xu E, Kaney M, Graves M, Herrera M et al. Approaches to Making Live Code Accessible in a Mixed-Vision Music Ensemble. In ASSETS 2023 - Proceedings of the 25th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility. Association for Computing Machinery, Inc. 2023. 78. (ASSETS 2023 - Proceedings of the 25th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility). doi: 10.1145/3597638.3614489

Payne, William Christopher ; Shen, Xinran ; Xu, Eric et al. / Approaches to Making Live Code Accessible in a Mixed-Vision Music Ensemble. ASSETS 2023 - Proceedings of the 25th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility. Association for Computing Machinery, Inc, 2023. (ASSETS 2023 - Proceedings of the 25th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility).

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