Crowd in C
Sang Won Lee, Aaron Willette · 2019
We introduce an audience participation system for a music piece, Crowd in C. A distributed musical instrument is implemented entirely on a web browser for an audience to easily participate in music making with their smartphones and to generate sound on their palms. This web-based instrument is designed to encourage an audience to play music together and to interact with other audience members. Each participant composes a short musical tune that will be a musical profile of oneself. Once a profile is submitted, they can browse other people's profiles and play a pattern they like in pairs as if one improvises with another musician. The use of musical profiles is a metaphor for online dating websites and the network created by the instrument mimics such social interaction where a user browses profiles, likes someone, and mingle with other online users.