Paper Info
Title
Decentralized harmonic synchronization in mobile music systems
Abstract
A system for decentralized synchronization of musical agents is presented, inspired by Mirollo and Strogatz' pulse-coupled oscillator model of the synchronous flashing of certain species of firefly. While most previous work on pulse-coupled oscillators assume fixed and (close to) equal oscillator frequencies, the presented system tackles the challenge of different starting frequencies. Open source implementations in Puredata, Max, and Matlab are provided. Test results for setups of six nodes show that nodes reach a state of harmonic synchrony, where fire events coincide and oscillators display integer-ratio frequency relations.
Year
DOI
Venue
2014
10.1109/ICAwST.2014.6981832
Awareness Science and Technology
Keywords
Field
DocType
mobile computing,music,decentralized harmonic synchronization,integer-ratio frequency relations,mobile music systems,musical agents,open source implementations,pulse-coupled oscillators,oscillators,harmonic analysis,synchronization
Topology,Synchronization,Oscillation,Mobile music,MATLAB,Computer science,Synchronization networks,Data synchronization,Harmonic,Real-time computing,Harmonic analysis
Conference
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
0
0.34
9
Authors
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Nymoen, K.100.34
Arjun Chandra222512.29
Glette, K.320.85
Jim Torresen487696.23