Pocket Gamelan: a Pure Data interface for mobile phones

Greg Schiemer, and Mark Havryliv

Proceedings of the International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression

Abstract:

This paper describes software tools used to create java applications for performing music using mobile phones. The tools provide a means for composers working in the Pure Data composition environment to design and audition performances using ensembles of mobile phones. These tools were developed as part of a larger project motivated by the desire to allow large groups of non-expert players to perform music based on just intonation using ubiquitous technology. The paper discusses the process that replicates a Pure Data patch so that it will operate within the hardware and software constraints of the Java 2 Micro Edition. It also describes development of objects that will enable mobile phone performances to be simulated accurately in PD and to audition microtonal tuning implemented using MIDI in the j2me environment. These tools eliminate the need for composers to compose for mobile phones by writing java code. In a single desktop application, they offer the composer the flexibility to write music for multiple phones.

Citation:

Greg Schiemer, and Mark Havryliv. 2005. Pocket Gamelan: a Pure Data interface for mobile phones. Proceedings of the International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression. DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.1176812

BibTeX Entry:

  @inproceedings{Schiemer2005,
 abstract = {This paper describes software tools used to create java applications for performing music using mobile phones. The tools provide a means for composers working in the Pure Data composition environment to design and audition performances using ensembles of mobile phones. These tools were developed as part of a larger project motivated by the desire to allow large groups of non-expert players to perform music based on just intonation using ubiquitous technology. The paper discusses the process that replicates a Pure Data patch so that it will operate within the hardware and software constraints of the Java 2 Micro Edition. It also describes development of objects that will enable mobile phone performances to be simulated accurately in PD and to audition microtonal tuning implemented using MIDI in the j2me environment. These tools eliminate the need for composers to compose for mobile phones by writing java code. In a single desktop application, they offer the composer the flexibility to write music for multiple phones. },
 address = {Vancouver, BC, Canada},
 author = {Schiemer, Greg and Havryliv, Mark},
 booktitle = {Proceedings of the International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression},
 doi = {10.5281/zenodo.1176812},
 issn = {2220-4806},
 keywords = {Java 2 Micro Edition; j2me; Pure Data; PD; Real-Time Media Performance; Just Intonation. },
 pages = {156--159},
 title = {Pocket Gamelan: a Pure Data interface for mobile phones},
 url = {http://www.nime.org/proceedings/2005/nime2005_156.pdf},
 year = {2005}
}