MoNoDeC: The Mobile Node Controller Platform
Nick Hwang; Anthony Marasco
- Session: workshops-1
- Location: Hanna Neumann 3.41
Abstract:
MoNoDeC is a multichannel audio system that uses audience mobile phones and IoT-hardware-driven speakers as point sources for configurable and dynamic immersive audio speakers and audience performance interfaces. Audience participants register their current location within a customizable audience space diagram on their mobile phones. Their phones then become a point source speaker within the immersive experience. A person designated as the performance/installation ‘controller’ sends audio, control, and interface data to participants throughout the experience. In addition to diffusing audio to mobile devices, MoNoDeC can include embedded computer instruments known as ‘autonomous hubs’: IoT-based speakers that receive playback/diffusion data. These autonomous hubs are meant to be used in larger sound diffusion performance settings as well as installation/fixed point source scenarios in conjunction with audience-provided devices.
This workshop will lead participants on setting up the MoNoDeC system, designing registration and location-choosing presets for audience members to engage with, and methods for panning audio around the networked mobile device speaker array during a live composition. Participants will also learn the basics of Collab-Hub, our framework for sharing control data between networked telematic performers that serves as the backbone of MoNoDeC. After learning the core features of both systems, participants will form groups and design short immersive compositions using the framework. participants will set up the MoNoDec system, design registration and location-choosing presets for audience members to engage with, and explore methods for panning audio around the networked mobile device speaker array during a live composition. At the end of the session, participants will form groups and design short immersive compositions using the system.