A multimedia environment for interactive music performance
Roberto Bresin, Anders Friberg · KTH Publication Database DiVA (KTH Royal Institute of Technology) · 1997
We propose a music performance tool based on the Java programming language. This software runs in any Java applet viewer (i.e. a WWW browser) and interacts with the local Midi equipment by mean of a multi-task software module for Midi applications (MidiShare). Two main ideas are at the base of our project: one is to realise an easy, intuitive, hardware and software independent tool for performance, and the other is to achieve an easier development of the tool itself. At the moment there are two projects under development: a system based only on a Java applet, called Japer (Java performer), and a hybrid system based on a Java user interface and a Lisp kernel for the development of the performance tools. In this paper, the first of the two projects is presented.