Re: [linux-audio-dev] (web-based) interactive sound art?

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Subject: Re: [linux-audio-dev] (web-based) interactive sound art?
From: Francois Dechelle (Francois.Dechelle_AT_ircam.fr)
Date: Tue May 04 2004 - 18:03:50 EEST


Hi,

Interesting project.

I assume that players (people sitting in front of their web interface ?)
listen via streaming. Which format will you use/recommend?

For p2p, peercast (http://www.peercast.org/) is a broadcasting p2p
application that may be usefull for your project.

fd

Le mar 04/05/2004 à 08:26, Niklas Werner a écrit :
> Hi .*,
>
> I am doing my PhD at the University of Waikato's Music Department, NZ with
> Ian Whalley.
> I am going to develop a Web-based interactive sound art system allowing
> composers/players to incorporate aesthetic approaches from electronic
> music, net.art, sonic art and soundscapes.
>
> I am trying to get away from using MIDI in favour of OSC and direct DSP on
> the audio (That's why I'm thinking of using SuperCollider). I will direct
> much attention to the musical quality of the system's output, possibly in
> exchange for not getting a decent interface done.
>
> Features will basically be:
> - "off-line" interface for composers to create sound art
> pieces/installation for the web (this is where there must be a framework
> to allow "composition" of the Net's peculiarities (latency, jitter,
> interaction between the players, etc...) in addition to the usual musical
> parameters
> - on-line interface for "players" to mess around with the installation
> - All that probably in a p2p approach using a server only for net-address
> brokerage
>
> An outdated proposal of this can be found at:
> http://www.niklaswerner.de/Assets/PhD-Thesis-Expose_EN.pdf
>
> Is anybody already working on such a beast (or similar, of course) or
> knows anybody who is? (I am aware of quintet-net, peersynth, FMOL,
> jam2jam, webdrum/JSyn, Dase, Lemu and some others and have contacted
> their authors)
>
> Is SuperCollider really up to that challenge or does another programming
> language spring to anybody's mind?
>
> Have fun*
>
> Niklas
>


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