DAMUS: A COLLABORATIVE SYSTEM FOR CHOREOGRAPHY AND MUSIC COMPOSITION

Throughout the history of dance and music collaborations, composers and choreographers have always engaged in separate workflows. Usually, composers and choreographers complete the music and choreograph the moves separately, where the lack of mutual understanding of their artistic approaches results in a long production time. There is a strong need in the performance industry to reduce the time for establishing a collaborative foundation, allowing for more productive creations. We propose DAMUS, a work-in-progress collaborative system for choreography and music composition, in order to reduce production time and boost productivity. DAMUS is composed of a dance module DA and a music module MUS. DA translates dance motion into MoCap data, Labanotation, and number notation, and sets rules of variations for choreography. MUS produces musical materials that fit the tempo and rhythm of specific dance genres or moves. We applied our system prototype to case studies in three different genres. In the future, we plan to pursue more genres and further develop DAMUS with evolutionary computation and style transfer.