“Composing’s one thing, performing’s another, listening’s a third. What can they have to do with each other?” —John Cage

The Distributed Music Group develops enabling technologies and musical works which create new connections among composers, performers, and listeners. Through computer vision, we facilitate mass-audience participation in live concert performances. Through real-time music notation systems, we connect the creative activities of those audiences to performing musicians. And through networked music environments, we extend the excitement of such collaborations beyond the concert hall.

Recent Projects:

Nular (interactive granular synthesis web environment)

Piano Etudes (interactive web site and solo piano performance)

Flock (saxophone quartet, dancers, audience participation, real-time music notation, video, electronic sound)

Flou (networked music software)

Graph Theory (interactive web site and solo violin performance)

iTunes Signature Maker (software art)

People:

Faculty: Jason Freeman

Students: Akito Van Troyer, Andrew Willingham, Vamsi Bharadwaj

Alumni: Mark Godfrey