Latency-, Sync-, and Bandwidth-Agnostic Tightly-Timed Telematic and Crowdsourced Musicking Made Possible Using L2Ork Tweeter

Ivica Bukvic

Proceedings of the International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression

Abstract:

The following paper presents L2Ork Tweeter, a new control-data-driven free and open source crowdsourced telematic musicking platform and a new interface for musical expression that deterministically addresses three of the greatest challenges associated with the telematic music medium, that of latency, sync, and bandwidth. Motivated by the COVID-19 pandemic, Tweeter’s introduction in April 2020 has ensured uninterrupted operation of Virginia Tech’s Linux Laptop Orchestra (L2Ork), resulting in 6 international performances over the past 18 months. In addition to enabling tightly-timed sync between clients, it also uniquely supports all stages of NIME-centric telematic musicking, from collaborative instrument design and instruction, to improvisation, composition, rehearsal, and performance, including audience participation. Tweeter is also envisioned as a prototype for the crowdsourced approach to telematic musicking. Below, the paper delves deeper into motivation, constraints, design and implementation, and the observed impact as an applied instance of a proposed paradigmshift in telematic musicking and its newfound identity fueled by the live crowdsourced telematic music genre.

Citation:

Ivica Bukvic. 2022. Latency-, Sync-, and Bandwidth-Agnostic Tightly-Timed Telematic and Crowdsourced Musicking Made Possible Using L2Ork Tweeter. Proceedings of the International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression. DOI: 10.21428/92fbeb44.a0a8d914

BibTeX Entry:

  @inproceedings{NIME22_33,
 abstract = {The following paper presents L2Ork Tweeter, a new control-data-driven free and open source crowdsourced telematic musicking platform and a new interface for musical expression that deterministically addresses three of the greatest challenges associated with the telematic music medium, that of latency, sync, and bandwidth. Motivated by the COVID-19 pandemic, Tweeter’s introduction in April 2020 has ensured uninterrupted operation of Virginia Tech’s Linux Laptop Orchestra (L2Ork), resulting in 6 international performances over the past 18 months. In addition to enabling tightly-timed sync between clients, it also uniquely supports all stages of NIME-centric telematic musicking, from collaborative instrument design and instruction, to improvisation, composition, rehearsal, and performance, including audience participation. Tweeter is also envisioned as a prototype for the crowdsourced approach to telematic musicking. Below, the paper delves deeper into motivation, constraints, design and implementation, and the observed impact as an applied instance of a proposed paradigmshift in telematic musicking and its newfound identity fueled by the live crowdsourced telematic music genre.},
 address = {The University of Auckland, New Zealand},
 articleno = {33},
 author = {Bukvic, Ivica},
 booktitle = {Proceedings of the International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression},
 doi = {10.21428/92fbeb44.a0a8d914},
 issn = {2220-4806},
 month = {jun},
 pdf = {26.pdf},
 presentation-video = {https://youtu.be/5pawphncSmg},
 title = {Latency-, Sync-, and Bandwidth-Agnostic Tightly-Timed Telematic and Crowdsourced Musicking Made Possible Using L2Ork Tweeter},
 url = {https://doi.org/10.21428%2F92fbeb44.a0a8d914},
 year = {2022}
}