Random Access Remixing on the iPad

Jon Forsyth, Aron Glennon, and Juan P. Bello

Proceedings of the International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression

Abstract

Remixing audio samples is a common technique for the creation of electronic music, and there are a wide variety oftools available to edit, process, and recombine pre-recordedaudio into new compositions. However, all of these toolsconceive of the timeline of the pre-recorded audio and theplayback timeline as identical. In this paper, we introducea dual time axis representation in which these two timelines are described explicitly. We also discuss the randomaccess remix application for the iPad, an audio sample editor based on this representation. We describe an initialuser study with 15 high school students that indicates thatthe random access remix application has the potential todevelop into a useful and interesting tool for composers andperformers of electronic music.

Citation

Jon Forsyth, Aron Glennon, and Juan P. Bello. 2011. Random Access Remixing on the iPad. Proceedings of the International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression. DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.1178011

BibTeX Entry

@inproceedings{Forsyth2011,
 abstract = {Remixing audio samples is a common technique for the creation of electronic music, and there are a wide variety oftools available to edit, process, and recombine pre-recordedaudio into new compositions. However, all of these toolsconceive of the timeline of the pre-recorded audio and theplayback timeline as identical. In this paper, we introducea dual time axis representation in which these two timelines are described explicitly. We also discuss the randomaccess remix application for the iPad, an audio sample editor based on this representation. We describe an initialuser study with 15 high school students that indicates thatthe random access remix application has the potential todevelop into a useful and interesting tool for composers andperformers of electronic music.},
 address = {Oslo, Norway},
 author = {Forsyth, Jon and Glennon, Aron and Bello, Juan P.},
 booktitle = {Proceedings of the International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression},
 doi = {10.5281/zenodo.1178011},
 issn = {2220-4806},
 keywords = {interactive systems, sample editor, remix, iPad, multi-touch },
 pages = {487--490},
 title = {Random Access Remixing on the iPad},
 url = {http://www.nime.org/proceedings/2011/nime2011_487.pdf},
 year = {2011}
}