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Networked music: bridging real and virtual space

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 February 2002

John P. Young
John P. Young
Affiliation:
Peabody Conservatory of Music, Johns Hopkins University, 1 East Mt. Vernon Place, Baltimore, MD 21202, USA E-mail: [email protected]
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Abstract

This paper describes an exploration of utilising the World Wide Web for interactive music. The origin of this investigation was the intermedia work Telemusic #1, by Randall Packer, which combined live performers with live public participation via the Web. During the event, visitors to the site navigated through a virtual interface, and while manipulating elements, projected their actions in the form of triggered sounds into the physical space. Simultaneously, the live audio performance was streamed back out to the Internet participants. Thus, anyone could take part in the collective realisation of the work and hear the musical results in real time. The underlying technology is, to our knowledge, the first standards-based implementation linking the Web with Cycling '74 MAX. Using only ECMAScript/JavaScript, Java, and the OTUDP external from UC Berkeley CNMAT, virtually any conceivable interaction with a Web page can send data to a MAX patch for processing. The code can also be readily adapted to work with Pd, jMAX and other network-enabled applications.

Type
Research Article
Information
Organised Sound , Volume 6 , Issue 2 , August 2001 , pp. 107 - 110
Copyright
© 2001 Cambridge University Press

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