nJam user experiments: enabling remote musical interaction from milliseconds to seconds

  • Authors:
  • Nicolas Bouillot

  • Affiliations:
  • Cedric-Cnam, Paris, cedex, France

  • Venue:
  • NIME '07 Proceedings of the 7th international conference on New interfaces for musical expression
  • Year:
  • 2007

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Abstract

Remote real-time musical interaction is a domain where end-to-end latency is a well known problem. Today, the main explored approach aims to keep it below the musicians perception threshold. In this paper, we explore another approach, where end-to-end delays rise to several seconds, but computed in a controlled (and synchronized) way depending on the structure of the musical pieces. Thanks to our fully distributed prototype called nJam, we perform user experiments to show how this new kind of interactivity breaks the actual end-to-end latency bounds.