DocumentCode
184829
Title
Decentralized harmonic synchronization in mobile music systems
Author
Nymoen, Kristian ; Chandra, Aniruddha ; Glette, Kyrre ; Torresen, Jim
Author_Institution
Dept. of Musicology, Univ. of Oslo, Oslo, Norway
fYear
2014
fDate
29-31 Oct. 2014
Firstpage
1
Lastpage
6
Abstract
A system for decentralized synchronization of musical agents is presented, inspired by Mirollo and Strogatz´ pulse-coupled oscillator model of the synchronous flashing of certain species of firefly. While most previous work on pulse-coupled oscillators assume fixed and (close to) equal oscillator frequencies, the presented system tackles the challenge of different starting frequencies. Open source implementations in Puredata, Max, and Matlab are provided. Test results for setups of six nodes show that nodes reach a state of harmonic synchrony, where fire events coincide and oscillators display integer-ratio frequency relations.
Keywords
mobile computing; music; decentralized harmonic synchronization; integer-ratio frequency relations; mobile music systems; musical agents; open source implementations; pulse-coupled oscillators; Frequency synchronization; Harmonic analysis; MATLAB; Mobile handsets; Oscillators; Peer-to-peer computing; Synchronization;
fLanguage
English
Publisher
ieee
Conference_Titel
Awareness Science and Technology (iCAST), 2014 IEEE 6th International Conference on
Conference_Location
Paris
Type
conf
DOI
10.1109/ICAwST.2014.6981832
Filename
6981832
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