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Building Collaborative Graphical interFaces in the Audicle

Ge Wang, Ananya Misra, and Perry R. Cook

Proceedings of the International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression

Abstract

Emergence is the formation of complex patterns from simpler rules or systems. This paper motivates and describes new graphical interfaces for controlling sound designed for strongly-timed, collaborative computer music ensembles. While the interfaces are themselves minimal and often limiting, the overall collaboration can produce results novel beyond the simple sum of the components – leveraging the very uniqueness of an ensemble: its strength in numbers. The interfaces are human-controlled and machine-synchronized across a dozen or more computers. Group control, as well as sound synthesis mapping at each endpoint, can be programmed quickly and even on-the-fly, providing a second channel of real-time control. We show examples of these interfaces as interchangeable plug-ins for the Audicle environment, and also document how they are used in a laptop ensemble.

Citation

Ge Wang, Ananya Misra, and Perry R. Cook. 2006. Building Collaborative Graphical interFaces in the Audicle. Proceedings of the International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression. DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.1177017 [PDF]

BibTeX Entry


@inproceedings{nime2006_Wang,
author = {Wang, Ge and Misra, Ananya and Cook, Perry R.},
title = {Building Collaborative Graphical interFaces in the Audicle},
pages = {49--52},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression},
year = {2006},
address = {Paris, France},
issn = {2220-4806},
doi = {10.5281/zenodo.1177017},
url = {https://nime.org/proceedings/2006/nime2006_049.pdf},
keywords = {Graphical interfaces, collaborative performance, networking, computer music ensemble, emergence, visualization, education. },
abstract = {Emergence is the formation of complex patterns from simpler rules or systems. This paper motivates and describes new graphical interfaces for controlling sound designed for strongly-timed, collaborative computer music ensembles. While the interfaces are themselves minimal and often limiting, the overall collaboration can produce results novel beyond the simple sum of the components – leveraging the very uniqueness of an ensemble: its strength in numbers. The interfaces are human-controlled and machine-synchronized across a dozen or more computers. Group control, as well as sound synthesis mapping at each endpoint, can be programmed quickly and even on-the-fly, providing a second channel of real-time control. We show examples of these interfaces as interchangeable plug-ins for the Audicle environment, and also document how they are used in a laptop ensemble.}
}