Realtime Collaborative Mobile Music – MUSICOLL
MUSICOLL
Realtime Collaborative and Mobile Music
Redesigning realtime music practice towards collaborative modes
The main issue of the MUSICOLL project is to redesign the practice of realtime music in a production environment from now on collaborative, based on networks. How can we bring creators to compose together at the digital area? Which features of digital music, which production proceses can we reshape in collaborative and networked mode? How can we arouse both a practice community and a diffusion of this collaboration? How can we bring creators to collaborate on patches including more or less explicitely often dry concepts in signal processing? How can we make realtime practice less confidential, though known for its difficulty, and requiring specialists?<br />We aim at four objectives of development of collaboration corresponding to new approaches of the four phases of realtime creation:<br />-ahead: the preliminary phase to composition consists in sharing ressources and tasks between users<br />-during the design/composition phase: *the possibility of taking part to the progression of the project always having a global overwiew *the improvement of the workflow either individually or collectively<br />-during the performance phase: *new forms of collaborative creation: collaborative or participative concerts, live coding *new interfaces and means to interact with music on a network<br />-downstream: opening to musicological research: durability of patches and compositional material, and their representations as well
-Agile method for software development. Cycles of specifications, development and demonstration are short.
-Positioning of the project (specifications and software realization) towards the design and implementation of a new approach of teaching patching for beginners
The first expected result is the production of a sketch of a realtime collaborative and mobile environment, enabling to create sound and music processings. To answer to the expectations of composers, this sketch wil provide a first kernel of sound transformations and synthesis. To make easier its handling by users, a documentation will be provided including explanations, help files, examples as tutorials.
Parallel to software development, two use studies will be achieved on two communities especially present at Paris 8 University: composers and creators on one side; students training to realtime techniques on the other side. The first one will be based on the needs of musicians/creators and on the uses of the software. The other one will be based on the teaching of music realtime softwares by the elaboration of pilot courses using this new environment of creation. We will show the renewals induced by this proposal within theses communities and these fields.
Last but not least, these researches will produce scientific publications in digital audio, towards the music community (digital and electroacoustic music) and mainstream music production and towards the scientific community interested in the issues of the preservation of works, of the ergonomy of the interfaces dedicated to music creation and education
Development of an environment, a community and usages of collaborative creation of modules of transformation or synthesis of sound in realtime
-Publications
Sèdes, A., Bonardi A., Paris E., Millot J., Guillot P., « Teaching, researching, creating: MUSICOLL ». In Innovative Tools and Methods to Teach Music and Signal, Processing, sous la direction de Laurent Pottier, Paris : Presses des Mines - Transvalor, 224 pages.
Paris, E., Millot, J., Guillot, P., Bonardi, A., Sèdes, A., « Kiwi : Vers un environnement de création musicale temps-réel collaboratif - Premiers livrables du projet MUSICOLL », Actes de la Conférence JIM 2017 (Journées d’Informatique Musicale 2017). Prix du Jeune Chercheur de l’Association Francophone d’Informatique Musicale.
With mobile, collaborative and cloud computing, tools for music creation and practices both evolve. OhmStudio software has for instance been designed for collaborative audio mixing on Internet. But, in the case of realtime processing of sound, most users work alone on personal computers.
The MUSICOLL project brings together the Centre de Recherche en Informatique et Création Musicale / MSH-Paris Nord USR 3258 and the OhmForce company, specialized in collaborative audio production. Its purpose is to renew realtime music practices, moving to collaborative, multi-platform, perennial patch créations.
The objectives are
1. to produce a sketch of a collaborative and mobile realtime processing software
2. to study the handling of this software by creators
3. to study how to renew the teaching of realtime music softwares
4. scientific and professionnal dissemination
Project coordination
Alain Bonardi (Maison des Sciences de l'Homme Paris Nord)
The author of this summary is the project coordinator, who is responsible for the content of this summary. The ANR declines any responsibility as for its contents.
Partner
GRAOUMF
MSHPN Maison des Sciences de l'Homme Paris Nord
Help of the ANR 332,325 euros
Beginning and duration of the scientific project:
September 2015
- 36 Months
