Category Archives: Interactive music

Wireless Music’s New Social Sound

Oh yeah, this is what I’m talking about:

As one participant naturally sways to the groove, the PDA’s motion sensor detects his motion and shifts the tempo of the song. With the song’s intensity building, another listener subconsciously grips her PDA tighter, introducing echo effects into the mix. The closer that listening partners move to each […]

Interactive art and music projects

I need to get my hands on this: The Audiovisual Environment Suite (AVES) is a set of five interactive systems which allow people to create and perform abstract animation and synthetic sound in real time. Each environment is an experimental…

Sounds of mobility

a post about interactive audio projects, by Anne I ment to post this earlier, but forgot. She posts about two interesting projects: Sonic Cities and Glitch. Neither of them seems to offer a collaborative environment for creating audio. But, unlike…

Interactive music: The Last Signal

"Independent Opposition Music Publishing is seeking short entries for an upcoming sound collage compilation based upon what the ending of this world might sound like." Via Fields | Weblog via Abe….

Idea-blogging: games as musical interface

I'm gonna do some idea-blogging over the next few days, trying to get some ideas out there for some feedback (or at least so I don't forget them). I've had this "games as musical interface" idea for a couple years….

More audience participation in music

Simple Text is a "mobile phone enabled performance" that's very similar to my idea for an audblog based music project and not far off my game-as-musical interface idea (which I still need to write up). SimpleTEXT is a collaborative audio/visual…

Audience participation in music

Einsturzende Neubauten had a subscription program through their web site through which subscribers could watch and listen to the band's studio sessions and then leave comments in a forum. So essentially they were letting their fans have a say in…