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JamSpace: Designing A Collaborative Networked Music Space for Novices

Michael Gurevich

Proceedings of the International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression

Abstract

An interactive music environment to support real-time jamming by novices and amateur musicians over a network is described. JamSpace takes advantage of the low latency and connectivity of a local area network (LAN) to allow real-time rhythmic collaboration from isolated locations. Several demonstrated needs that motivate the design are discussed in detail. These include technologicallymediated ways of restoring casual social interactions to the domain of music creation and the preservation of anonymity and privacy for amateur musicians in a group setting. JamSpace’s design addresses these needs with a novel hardware and software interface incorporating listening, private rehearsal, mixing, looping tracks and real-time jamming. User-configurable levels of interactivity are analyzed in terms of social spaces.

Citation

Michael Gurevich. 2006. JamSpace: Designing A Collaborative Networked Music Space for Novices. Proceedings of the International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression. DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.1176915 [PDF]

BibTeX Entry


@inproceedings{nime2006_Gurevich,
author = {Gurevich, Michael},
title = {JamSpace: Designing A Collaborative Networked Music Space for Novices},
pages = {118--123},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression},
year = {2006},
address = {Paris, France},
issn = {2220-4806},
doi = {10.5281/zenodo.1176915},
url = {https://nime.org/proceedings/2006/nime2006_118.pdf},
keywords = {Collaborative interface, remote jamming, network music, interaction design, novice, media space INTRODUCTION Most would agree that music is an inherently social ac- tivity [30], but since the },
abstract = {An interactive music environment to support real-time jamming by novices and amateur musicians over a network is described. JamSpace takes advantage of the low latency and connectivity of a local area network (LAN) to allow real-time rhythmic collaboration from isolated locations. Several demonstrated needs that motivate the design are discussed in detail. These include technologicallymediated ways of restoring casual social interactions to the domain of music creation and the preservation of anonymity and privacy for amateur musicians in a group setting. JamSpace’s design addresses these needs with a novel hardware and software interface incorporating listening, private rehearsal, mixing, looping tracks and real-time jamming. User-configurable levels of interactivity are analyzed in terms of social spaces.}
}