Collaborative Live-Coding with an Immersive Instrument

Graham Wakefield, Charlie Roberts, Matthew Wright, Timothy Wood, and Karl Yerkes

Proceedings of the International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression

• Year: 2014
• Location: London, United Kingdom
• Pages: 505–508
• DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.1178975 (Link to paper)
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Abstract:

We discuss live coding audio-visual worlds for large-scale virtual reality environments. We describe Alive, an instrument allowing multiple users to develop sonic and visual behaviors of agents in a virtual world, through a browserbased collaborative code interface, accessible while being immersed through spatialized audio and stereoscopic display. The interface adds terse syntax for query-based precise or stochastic selections and declarative agent manipulations, lazily-evaluated expressions for synthesis and behavior, event handling, and flexible scheduling.

Citation:

BibTeX Entry:

  @inproceedings{gwakefield2014,
 abstract = {We discuss live coding audio-visual worlds for large-scale virtual reality environments. We describe Alive, an instrument allowing multiple users to develop sonic and visual behaviors of agents in a virtual world, through a browserbased collaborative code interface, accessible while being immersed through spatialized audio and stereoscopic display. The interface adds terse syntax for query-based precise or stochastic selections and declarative agent manipulations, lazily-evaluated expressions for synthesis and behavior, event handling, and flexible scheduling.},
 address = {London, United Kingdom},
 author = {Graham Wakefield and Charlie Roberts and Matthew Wright and Timothy Wood and Karl Yerkes},
 booktitle = {Proceedings of the International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression},
 doi = {10.5281/zenodo.1178975},
 issn = {2220-4806},
 month = {June},
 pages = {505--508},
 publisher = {Goldsmiths, University of London},
 title = {Collaborative Live-Coding with an Immersive Instrument},
 url = {http://www.nime.org/proceedings/2014/nime2014_328.pdf},
 year = {2014}
}