MadPad: A Crowdsourcing System for Audiovisual Sampling
Nick Kruge, Ge Wang · 2011
MadPad is a networked audiovisual sample station for mobile devices. Twelve short video clips are loaded onto the screen in a grid and playback is triggered by tapping anywhere on the clip. This is similar to tapping the pads of an audio sample station, but extends that interaction to add visual sampling. Clips can be shot on-the-fly with a cameraenabled mobile device and loaded into the player instantly, giving the performer an ability to quickly transform his or her surroundings into a sample-based, audiovisual instrument. Samples can also be sourced from an online community in which users can post or download content. The recent ubiquity of multitouch mobile devices and advances in pervasive computing have made this system possible, providing for a vast amount of content only limited by the imagination of the performer and the community. This paper presents the core features of MadPad and the design explorations that inspired them. Keywords mobile music, networked music, social music, audiovisual,