A Mobile Music Environment Using A Pd Compiler And Wireless Sensors

Abstract

We describe a framework for a wireless sensor-based mobile music environment. Most prior work in this area has not been truly portable, or has been limited to simple tempo modification or selection of pre-recorded songs. The exceptions generally focused on external data rather than dynamic properties and states of the listener. Our system exploits a short-range wireless sensor network (using the ZigBee protocol and inertial sensors) and a compiler for PureData, a graphical music processing language. We demonstrate the system in an interactive exercise application running on a Nokia N800.