nJam User Experiments : Enabling Remote Musical Interaction from Milliseconds to Seconds

Nicolas Bouillot

Proceedings of the International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression

• Year: 2007
• Location: New York City, NY, United States
• Pages: 142–147
• Keywords: Remote real-time musical interaction, end-to-end delays, syn- chronization, user experiments, distributed metronome, NMP.
• DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.1177055 (Link to paper)
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Abstract:

Remote real-time musical interaction is a domain where endto-end latency is a well known problem. Today, the mainexplored approach aims to keep it below the musicians perception threshold. In this paper, we explore another approach, where end-to-end delays rise to several seconds, butcomputed in a controlled (and synchronized) way dependingon the structure of the musical pieces. Thanks to our fullydistributed prototype called nJam, we perform user experiments to show how this new kind of interactivity breaks theactual end-to-end latency bounds.

Citation:

BibTeX Entry:

  @inproceedings{Bouillot2007,
 abstract = {Remote real-time musical interaction is a domain where endto-end latency is a well known problem. Today, the mainexplored approach aims to keep it below the musicians perception threshold. In this paper, we explore another approach, where end-to-end delays rise to several seconds, butcomputed in a controlled (and synchronized) way dependingon the structure of the musical pieces. Thanks to our fullydistributed prototype called nJam, we perform user experiments to show how this new kind of interactivity breaks theactual end-to-end latency bounds.},
 address = {New York City, NY, United States},
 author = {Bouillot, Nicolas},
 booktitle = {Proceedings of the International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression},
 doi = {10.5281/zenodo.1177055},
 issn = {2220-4806},
 keywords = {Remote real-time musical interaction, end-to-end delays, syn- chronization, user experiments, distributed metronome, NMP. },
 pages = {142--147},
 title = {nJam User Experiments : Enabling Remote Musical Interaction from Milliseconds to Seconds},
 url = {http://www.nime.org/proceedings/2007/nime2007_142.pdf},
 year = {2007}
}