SWARMED: Captive Portals, Mobile Devices, and Audience Participation in Multi-User Music Performance

Abram Hindle

Proceedings of the International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression

Abstract:

Audience participation in computer music has long been limited byresources such as sensor technology or the material goods necessary toshare such an instrument. A recent paradigm is to take advantageof the incredible popularity of the smart-phone, a pocket sizedcomputer, and other mobile devices, to provide the audience aninterface into a computer music instrument. In this paper we discuss amethod of sharing a computer music instrument's interface with anaudience to allow them to interact via their smartphone. We propose amethod that is relatively cross-platform and device-agnostic, yetstill allows for a rich user-interactive experience. By emulating acaptive-portal or hotspot we reduce the adoptability issues and configurationproblems facing performers and their audience. We share ourexperiences with this system, as well as an implementation of thesystem itself.

Citation:

Abram Hindle. 2013. SWARMED: Captive Portals, Mobile Devices, and Audience Participation in Multi-User Music Performance. Proceedings of the International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression. DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.1178550

BibTeX Entry:

  @inproceedings{Hindle2013,
 abstract = {Audience participation in computer music has long been limited byresources such as sensor technology or the material goods necessary toshare such an instrument. A recent paradigm is to take advantageof the incredible popularity of the smart-phone, a pocket sizedcomputer, and other mobile devices, to provide the audience aninterface into a computer music instrument. In this paper we discuss amethod of sharing a computer music instrument's interface with anaudience to allow them to interact via their smartphone. We propose amethod that is relatively cross-platform and device-agnostic, yetstill allows for a rich user-interactive experience. By emulating acaptive-portal or hotspot we reduce the adoptability issues and configurationproblems facing performers and their audience. We share ourexperiences with this system, as well as an implementation of thesystem itself.},
 address = {Daejeon, Republic of Korea},
 author = {Abram Hindle},
 booktitle = {Proceedings of the International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression},
 doi = {10.5281/zenodo.1178550},
 issn = {2220-4806},
 keywords = {Wifi, Smartphone, Audience Interaction, Adoption, Captive Portal, Multi-User, Hotspot},
 month = {May},
 pages = {174--179},
 publisher = {Graduate School of Culture Technology, KAIST},
 title = {{SW}ARMED: Captive Portals, Mobile Devices, and Audience Participation in Multi-User Music Performance},
 url = {http://www.nime.org/proceedings/2013/nime2013_62.pdf},
 year = {2013}
}