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Mesh Garden: A creative-based musical game for participatory musical performance

Tate Carson

Proceedings of the International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression

Abstract

Mesh Garden explores participatory music-making with smart- phones using an audio sequencer game made up of a distributed smartphone speaker system. The piece allows a group of people in a relaxed situation to create a piece of ambient music using their smartphones networked through the internet. The players' interactions with the music are derived from the orientations of their phones. The work also has a gameplay aspect; if two players' phones match in orientation, one player has the option to take the other player's note, building up a bank of notes that will be used to form a melody.

Citation

Tate Carson. 2019. Mesh Garden: A creative-based musical game for participatory musical performance . Proceedings of the International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression. DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.3672986 [PDF]

BibTeX Entry


@inproceedings{nime2019_Carson,
author = {Tate Carson},
title = {Mesh Garden: A creative-based musical game for participatory musical performance },
pages = {339--342},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression},
editor = {Marcelo Queiroz and Anna Xambó Sedó},
year = {2019},
month = {June},
publisher = {UFRGS},
address = {Porto Alegre, Brazil},
issn = {2220-4806},
doi = {10.5281/zenodo.3672986},
url = {https://nime.org/proceedings/2019/nime2019_paper065.pdf},
abstract = {Mesh Garden explores participatory music-making with smart- phones using an audio sequencer game made up of a distributed smartphone speaker system. The piece allows a group of people in a relaxed situation to create a piece of ambient music using their smartphones networked through the internet. The players' interactions with the music are derived from the orientations of their phones. The work also has a gameplay aspect; if two players' phones match in orientation, one player has the option to take the other player's note, building up a bank of notes that will be used to form a melody.}
}