JamSpace: designing a collaborative networked music space for novices

  • Authors:
  • Michael Gurevich

  • Affiliations:
  • Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore

  • Venue:
  • NIME '06 Proceedings of the 2006 conference on New interfaces for musical expression
  • Year:
  • 2006

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Abstract

An interactive music environment to support real-time jamming by novices and amateur musicians over a network is described. JamSpace takes advantage of the low latency and connectivity of a local area network (LAN) to allow real-time rhythmic collaboration from isolated locations. Several demonstrated needs that motivate the design are discussed in detail. These include technologically-mediated ways of restoring casual social interactions to the domain of music creation and the preservation of anonymity and privacy for amateur musicians in a group setting. JamSpace's design addresses these needs with a novel hardware and software interface incorporating listening, private rehearsal, mixing, looping tracks and real-time jamming. User-configurable levels of interactivity are analyzed in terms of social spaces.