An Approach to Collaborative Music Composition

Niklas Klügel, Marc R. Frieß, Georg Groh, and Florian Echtler

Proceedings of the International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression

Abstract

This paper provides a discussion of how the electronic, solely ITbased composition and performance of electronic music can besupported in realtime with a collaborative application on a tabletopinterface, mediating between single-user style music compositiontools and co-located collaborative music improvisation. After having elaborated on the theoretical backgrounds of prerequisites ofco-located collaborative tabletop applications as well as the common paradigms in music composition/notation, we will review related work on novel IT approaches to music composition and improvisation. Subsequently, we will present our prototypical implementation and the results.

Citation

Niklas Klügel, Marc R. Frieß, Georg Groh, and Florian Echtler. 2011. An Approach to Collaborative Music Composition. Proceedings of the International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression. DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.1178071

BibTeX Entry

@inproceedings{Klugel2011,
 abstract = {This paper provides a discussion of how the electronic, solely ITbased composition and performance of electronic music can besupported in realtime with a collaborative application on a tabletopinterface, mediating between single-user style music compositiontools and co-located collaborative music improvisation. After having elaborated on the theoretical backgrounds of prerequisites ofco-located collaborative tabletop applications as well as the common paradigms in music composition/notation, we will review related work on novel IT approaches to music composition and improvisation. Subsequently, we will present our prototypical implementation and the results.},
 address = {Oslo, Norway},
 author = {Kl\''{u}gel, Niklas and Frie\ss, Marc R. and Groh, Georg and Echtler, Florian},
 booktitle = {Proceedings of the International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression},
 doi = {10.5281/zenodo.1178071},
 issn = {2220-4806},
 keywords = {Tabletop Interface, Collaborative Music Composition, Creativity Support },
 pages = {32--35},
 title = {An Approach to Collaborative Music Composition},
 url = {http://www.nime.org/proceedings/2011/nime2011_032.pdf},
 year = {2011}
}