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

[derek holzer <derek@xxxxxxx>]

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 



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