Mesh Garden: A creative-based musical game for participatory musical performance

Tate Carson

Proceedings of the International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression

Abstract:

Mesh Garden explores participatory music-making with smart- phones using an audio sequencer game made up of a distributed smartphone speaker system. The piece allows a group of people in a relaxed situation to create a piece of ambient music using their smartphones networked through the internet. The players' interactions with the music are derived from the orientations of their phones. The work also has a gameplay aspect; if two players' phones match in orientation, one player has the option to take the other player's note, building up a bank of notes that will be used to form a melody.

Citation:

Tate Carson. 2019. Mesh Garden: A creative-based musical game for participatory musical performance . Proceedings of the International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression. DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.3672986

BibTeX Entry:

  @inproceedings{Carson2019,
 abstract = {Mesh Garden explores participatory music-making with smart- phones using an audio sequencer game made up of a distributed smartphone speaker system. The piece allows a group of people in a relaxed situation to create a piece of ambient music using their smartphones networked through the internet. The players' interactions with the music are derived from the orientations of their phones. The work also has a gameplay aspect; if two players' phones match in orientation, one player has the option to take the other player's note, building up a bank of notes that will be used to form a melody.},
 address = {Porto Alegre, Brazil},
 author = {Tate Carson},
 booktitle = {Proceedings of the International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression},
 doi = {10.5281/zenodo.3672986},
 editor = {Marcelo Queiroz and Anna Xambó Sedó},
 issn = {2220-4806},
 month = {June},
 pages = {339--342},
 publisher = {UFRGS},
 title = {Mesh Garden: A creative-based musical game for participatory musical performance },
 url = {http://www.nime.org/proceedings/2019/nime2019_paper065.pdf},
 year = {2019}
}