Re: [microsound] (web-based) interactive sound art?

[Peter Todd <peter_todd82@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

flosc http://www.benchun.net/flosc/ "acts as a gateway between OSC
applications and Flash, allowing them to send control messages to one
another".

There is a Windows version of the synth part of Supercollider, but not the
language.  I don't know enough about it to know the implications of this to
Niklas' project.  But you should support windows, mm'kay.

http://www.selectparks.net/archive/q3apd.htm  seems to be the Quake III / pd
interface of which you speak.  It looks like it requires two machines, one
running linux, to run.  I suppose that's doable....  Selectparks.net has
info on a few projects like this, and you might also be interested in
www.nullpointer.co.uk .

If anyone knows more about these kind of game / sound art kind of projects,
or any thoughts on implications of them, in terms of creativity, immesion,
interaction, general worthiness or otherwise, etc. I'd love to hear them.

Cheers,

Pete

> Hi Niklas,
>
> Pure Data might also be an interesting way to go. You could run it on a
> Linux server, and provide a Flash interface using the Flashserver
> objects to allow communication using OSC between web-based clients and
> the actual app running on a server.
>
> Or, since PD is multiplatform and completely free, you could provide a
> customized set of installers, so that all DSP is done locally, and only
> OSC messages are exchanged over the Net.
>
> Supercollider would be useful for this as well, although I don't know
> about the Flash interface for example [you could of course use OSC
> locally to link the flashsever pd object to SC, if you want to be
> complex about it!]. But this only works if all your clients are running
> Mac OS 9 or X, or Linux, because AFAIK there is no SC for windoze.
>
> Speaking of players, somewhere out there exists a interface between
> Quake 3 Arena and Pure Data. You could use this for a real multi-user
> "gaming" environment. Shoot 'em up!
>
> I [heart] open source.
>
> d.
>
>
> Niklas Werner wrote:
>
> > 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
>
>
>
> -- 
> derek holzer ::: http://www.umatic.nl
> ---Oblique Strategy # 155:
> "The most important thing is the thing most easily forgotten"
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