Rethinking networked collaboration in the live coding environment Gibber

Charlie Roberts, Ian Hattwick, Eric Sheffield, and Gillian Smith

Proceedings of the International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression

Abstract:

We describe a new set of affordances for networked live coding performances in the browser-based environment Gibber, and discuss their implications in the context of three different performances by three different ensembles at three universities. Each ensemble possessed differing levels of programming and musical expertise, leading to different challenges and subsequent extensions to Gibber to address them. We describe these and additional extensions that came about after shared reflection on our experiences. While our chosen design contains computational inefficiencies that pose challenges for larger ensembles, our experiences suggest that this is a reasonable tradeoff for the low barrier-to-entry that browser-based environments provide, and that the design in general supports a variety of educational goals and compositional strategies.

Citation:

Charlie Roberts, Ian Hattwick, Eric Sheffield, and Gillian Smith. 2022. Rethinking networked collaboration in the live coding environment Gibber. Proceedings of the International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression. DOI: 10.21428/92fbeb44.38cb7745

BibTeX Entry:

  @inproceedings{NIME22_28,
 abstract = {We describe a new set of affordances for networked live coding performances in the browser-based environment Gibber, and discuss their implications in the context of three different performances by three different ensembles at three universities. Each ensemble possessed differing levels of programming and musical expertise, leading to different challenges and subsequent extensions to Gibber to address them. We describe these and additional extensions that came about after shared reflection on our experiences. While our chosen design contains computational inefficiencies that pose challenges for larger ensembles, our experiences suggest that this is a reasonable tradeoff for the low barrier-to-entry that browser-based environments provide, and that the design in general supports a variety of educational goals and compositional strategies.},
 address = {The University of Auckland, New Zealand},
 articleno = {28},
 author = {Roberts, Charlie and Hattwick, Ian and Sheffield, Eric and Smith, Gillian},
 booktitle = {Proceedings of the International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression},
 doi = {10.21428/92fbeb44.38cb7745},
 issn = {2220-4806},
 month = {jun},
 pdf = {191.pdf},
 presentation-video = {https://youtu.be/BKlHkEAqUOo},
 title = {Rethinking networked collaboration in the live coding environment Gibber},
 url = {https://doi.org/10.21428%2F92fbeb44.38cb7745},
 year = {2022}
}