Designing for conversational interaction

In this paper we describe an interaction framework which classifies musicians ’ interactions with virtual musical in-struments into three modes: instrumental, ornamental and conversational. We argue that conversational interactions are the most difficult to design for, but also the most in-teresting. To illustrate our approach to designing for con-versational interactions we describe the performance work Partial Reflections 3 for two clarinets and interactive soft-ware. This software uses simulated physical models to cre-ate a virtual sound sculpture which both responds to and produces sounds and visuals