DistributeDJ: A Mobile Group Music Making Toolkit

Daniel Shapira, Shlomo Dubnov

Abstract: The activity of technology enhanced group music making can offer intriguing insights into musical interaction, new ideas on performance, and more easily provide non expert musicians the opportunity to participate. Collaborative improvisations often have a looser structure then traditionally composed score based music, but in most cases there are still sets of structural frameworks to be followed. DistributeDJ, a group music service, is proposed to aid in the creation and execution of flexible collaborative mobile music performances and attract a broader audience participation. Designed to run through an Internet client, the system provides a communication layer between a central performance server and multiple clients that are used to actively manipulate the contents of delivered audio through participant's mobile interface.