Distributed Scores and Audio on Mobile Devices in the Music for a Multidisciplinary Performance

摘要

In an attempt to uncover the strengths and limitations of web technologies for sound and music notation applications, driven by aesthetic goals and prompted by the lack of logistic means, the author has developed a system for animated scores and sound diffusion using browser-enabled mobile devices, controlled by a host computer running Max and a web server. Ease of deployment was seen as a desirable feature in comparison to native application computer-based systems - such as Comprovisador, a system which has lent many features to the one proposed herein. Weaknesses were identified motivating the design of mitigation and adaptation strategies at the technical and the compositional levels, respectively. The creation of music for a multidisciplinary performance entitled GarB'urlesco has served as a case study to assess the effectiveness of those strategies. The present text is an extended version of a paper presented at CMMR 2019, in Marseille.