1. Interaction Topologies in Mobile-Based Situated Networked Music Systems
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Norbert Schnell, Frédéric Bevilacqua, Benjamin Matuszewski, Centre de recherche Informatique et Création Musicale (CICM), Esthétiques, musicologie, danse et créations musicales (MUSIDANSE), Université Paris 8 Vincennes-Saint-Denis (UP8)-Université Paris 8 Vincennes-Saint-Denis (UP8), Interaction Son Musique Mouvement [Paris], Sciences et Technologies de la Musique et du Son (STMS), Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 (UPMC)-IRCAM-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 (UPMC)-IRCAM-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Esthétique, musicologie, danse et création musicale (MUSIDANSE), and Institut de Recherche et Coordination Acoustique/Musique (IRCAM)-Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 (UPMC)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut de Recherche et Coordination Acoustique/Musique (IRCAM)-Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 (UPMC)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)
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[SPI.ACOU]Engineering Sciences [physics]/Acoustics [physics.class-ph] ,SIMPLE (military communications protocol) ,Article Subject ,Computer Networks and Communications ,Computer science ,lcsh:T ,media_common.quotation_subject ,05 social sciences ,06 humanities and the arts ,JavaScript library ,Network topology ,lcsh:Technology ,050105 experimental psychology ,060404 music ,lcsh:Telecommunication ,Human–computer interaction ,Perception ,lcsh:TK5101-6720 ,Situated ,0501 psychology and cognitive sciences ,Electrical and Electronic Engineering ,Set (psychology) ,0604 arts ,Information Systems ,media_common - Abstract
In this paper, we present a complete framework, both technical and conceptual, aimed at developing and analysing Networked Music Systems. After a short description of our technical framework called soundworks, a JavaScript library especially designed for collective music interaction using web browser of mobile phones, we introduce a new conceptual framework, we named interaction topologies, that aims at providing a generic tool for the description of interaction in such systems. Our proposition differs from the theoretical approaches generally proposed in the literature by decoupling the description of interaction topologies from the low level technical implementation of the network. We then report on a set of scenarios and prototypes, illustrating and assessing our framework, which were successfully deployed in several public installations and performances. We particularly show that our concept of interaction topologies succeeds at describing and analysing global aspects of interaction from multiple point of views (e.g., social, human-computer) by allowing for composing simple abstract figures. We finally introduce a discussion on agencies and perception of users engaged in such systems that could later complete our framework to conceive and analyse Networked Music Systems.
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- 2019
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