Title
ANTracks: generative mobile music composition
Abstract
This paper describes a generative music composition application on a mobile phone. Music generation is a well-suited application domain for multi-touch and reality based interaction. Thus, we choose to implement our concept on Apple's iPhone/iPod touch. Based on selected harmonic scales the user creates a musical expression by controlling a number of virtual ants. The movement along pre-defined patterns allows users with little artistic talent to create harmonic expressions. The mobile device can act as a multi-touch input device that controls an electronic synthesizer program on a desktop computer or as a stand-alone application.
Year
DOI
Venue
2009
10.1145/1690388.1690442
Advances in Computer Entertainment Technology
Keywords
Field
DocType
selected harmonic scale,stand-alone application,harmonic expression,generative music composition application,artistic talent,mobile device,generative mobile music composition,multi-touch input device,mobile phone,music generation,well-suited application domain,input device
Mobile technology,Mobile music,Mobile search,Computer science,Mobile device,Human–computer interaction,Musical expression,Mobile Web,Mobile phone,Multimedia,Input device
Conference
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
0
0.34
4
Authors
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Florian Schulz100.34
Christian Geiger2138.28
Holger Reckter366.02