Soundworks - A Playground for Artists and Developers to Create Collaborative Mobile Web Performances
We present Soundworks, a Javascript framework that enables artists and developers to create collaborative music performances where a group of participants distributed in space use their smartphones to generate sound and light through touch and motion. The framework adopts a modular architecture to make it easy to implement different performance scenarios, using a server / client architecture supported by Node.js and socket.io. We provide a boilerplate that allows anyone to bootstrap a scenario for Soundworks and focus on its audiovisual and interaction design instead of the infrastructure. We developed three scenarios based on Soundworks: Wandering Sound, Drops, and Paths. Each scenario has been tested multiple times with teenagers during workshops at the Centre Pompidou's Studio 13/16 in Paris. We present the results of these live tests.
@inproceedings{2015_EA_30,
abstract = {We present Soundworks, a Javascript framework that enables artists and developers to create collaborative music performances where a group of participants distributed in space use their smartphones to generate sound and light through touch and motion. The framework adopts a modular architecture to make it easy to implement different performance scenarios, using a server / client architecture supported by Node.js and socket.io. We provide a boilerplate that allows anyone to bootstrap a scenario for Soundworks and focus on its audiovisual and interaction design instead of the infrastructure. We developed three scenarios based on Soundworks: Wandering Sound, Drops, and Paths. Each scenario has been tested multiple times with teenagers during workshops at the Centre Pompidou's Studio 13/16 in Paris. We present the results of these live tests.},
address = {Paris, France},
author = {Robaszkiewicz, Sébastien and Schnell, Norbert},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the International Web Audio Conference},
editor = {Goldszmidt, Samuel and Schnell, Norbert and Saiz, Victor and Matuszewski, Benjamin},
month = {January},
pages = {},
publisher = {IRCAM},
series = {WAC '15},
title = {Soundworks - A Playground for Artists and Developers to Create Collaborative Mobile Web Performances},
year = {2015},
ISSN = {2663-5844}
}