Wanna form a virtual band?

摘要

This article describes a simple and easy to use framework for web jamming using the OpenSound Control (OSC) protocol (2002) and Supercollider (2002) by James McCartney, The word 'web jam-ming' refers to playing music together over the Internet. This kind of musical collaboration over networks has been around for a while and has already been implemented in a number of applications. Even though much of the recent development in this field is very impressive and provides the players with all sorts of customisation for sound and graphics. I still feel some very important things are acking. Most of all i would like to see personality refleeted throughout the system, and by providing a framework suitable for connecting musicians together rather than a fixed set of musical instruments for them to use, I think this can be achieved. So, by handing over the complete design of the virtual instruments, what parameters to control, how they will sound, what they will look like etc., to the players themselves, I wish to open up web jamming for individual and creative use to all kinds of musicians. it the players can express their 'sound' more freely, this can compensate somewhat for delayed reactions, lack of eye contact, gestures and atmospheres lost due to physical displacement and technological limitations.