- Title:
- Overview of Centre for Audio, Signal Processing and Multimedia Delivery (CASPMD)
- Presenter:
- Dr Christian Ritz, TITR, Associate Professor Greg Schiemer, Faculty of Creative Arts, Terumi Narushima and Mark Havryliv
- Date:
- August 24, 2005
- Abstract:
- Pocket Gamelan – hand-held wireless devices for performing electronic music
We will demonstrate the prototype for a set of mobile instruments in which java phone technology has been adapted for performing microtonal music. New performance scenarios potentially involve large numbers of non-expert performers. The prototype was designed to be easy to use, quick to learn and able to support a wide range of tuning systems and has been developed using widely available mobile phone handsets instead of building new hardware. Limitations of the mobile platform used so far are discussed along with aspects of j2me development such as real-time audio, microtonal MIDI implementation and control using bluetooth communication. We will briefly demonstrate two software tools developed for the project so that existing algorithmic composition and tuning software can be used to compose music for mobile devices. The first of these, called pd2j2me, allows musical applications developed in a desktop environment to be exported to java phones. The second allows composers who will write for such instruments to access a vast library of tuning resources that have been used by musicians in many cultures from antiquity to the present day.
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