Online Map Interface for Creative and Interactive Music-Making
Sihwa Park, Seung-Hun Kim, Samuel J. Lee, Woon Seung Yeo · 2010
In this paper, we discuss the musical potential of COMPath - an online map based music-making tool - as a novel and unique interface for interactive music composition and performance. COMPath provides an intuitive environment for creative music making by sonication of georeferenced data. Users can generate musical events with simple and familiar actions on an online map interface; a set of local information is collected along the user-drawn route and then interpreted as sounds of various musical instruments. We discuss the musical interpretation of routes on a map, review the design and implementation of COMPath, and present selected sonication results with focus on mapping strategies for map-based composition.