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Dear all,
A reminder that tomorrow at 2:30pm, Neil Cosgrove will present the
seminar 'Co-operative Music Applications'.
The seminar will take place in room 209 in the Electronic
Engineering building, Queen Mary University of London, Mile End
Road, London E1 4NS. Directions on how to access the building can
be found at http://www.eecs.qmul.ac.uk/about/campus-map.php. If
you are having problems entering, the lab phone number is +44
(0)20 7882 7480 and if I'm not available, anyone else in the lab
should be able to help. If you are coming from outside Queen Mary,
please let me know, so I can make sure no-one's stuck outside the
doors. Details of future seminars can be found at
http://www.eecs.qmul.ac.uk/newsevents/researchgroupevents.php?i=12.
All are welcome to attend. For those unable to do so, a video
recording of the seminar will be available online after a few
days.
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send me an email and I'll be happy to do so.
Tomorrow's seminar (20 April, 2:30pm):
Title:
Co-operative Music Applications
Speaker:
Neil Cosgrove
Abstract:
Making music on your computer at home can be a lonely experience
and designing co-operative music software that works on the
internet can become both challenging and complex. The seminar will
demonstrate a system that can mirror the studio experience across
several computers. When designing such projects many decisions
have to be made about both it's features and the functionality of
the underlying model. The key areas that will be discussed are:
- what goes into the co-operative experience.
- designing a network protocol for such a system.
- synchronising clocks at different locations.
- how networking and it's inherent latency affects a consistent
model.
The software been demonstrated works on Mac OS 10.4 or above.
Participants are encouraged to bring their own laptops if they
wish to join in on a live collaboration.
Bio:
Neil Cosgrove has 14 years of experience designing audio software
in the SuperCollider language. Building on the knowledge gained
from small and novel concepts, he now focuses on standalone
applications. Been both a programmer and bedroom producer, he has
always enjoyed both using and creating fun musical gadgets. As an
independent developer he is an advocate of open source software
and he is currently working on LNX_Studio, an application designed
for networked music collaborations. Website:
http://lnxstudio.sourceforge.net/
Emmanouil Benetos
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Centre for Digital Music (C4DM)
School of Electronic Engineering and Computer Science
Queen Mary, University of London
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