What is Roundware?

August 20th, 2009

Roundware is a flexible, open-source interactive audio platform which can be used to create unique participatory audio experiences.  Initially developed for sound art installations, Roundware has been used for museum audio tours as well as other educational purposes.

  • Roundware enables the two-way, wireless, real-time transfer of audio information via handheld devices.
  • Roundware organizes an ever-growing collection of audio information such that it can be accessed in both educational and artistic ways.
  • Roundware serves audio streams to users in a flexible non-linear way within the user’s criteria.

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Music Hack Day

November 16th, 2009

Mike and I are planning to attend Music Hack Day in Cambridge this weekend. It should be an interesting opportunity to meet other people working on music/tech projects and to learn about their projects. Hopefully we’ll be able to generate some interest in Roundware as well since it would be fantastic to get other developers involved with one of the many RW projects, current and future.
Let us know if you plan to be there as well and we can link up!

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New Ocean Voices beta ready for testing

September 4th, 2009

I’ve just gotten up the nerve to let this site I’ve been working on for ages out into the public for some testing.

Ocean Voices Development site

Please feel free to check it out, make some recordings and let me know how it all goes.

This is the first implementation of Roundware over the internet and it’s really exciting to be able to reach so many more people.

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True Grounds meeting

August 20th, 2009

Met with David today to regroup.  He helped me create this basic wordpress site and now I am trying to flesh it out with interesting and pertinent information about Roundware.  There’s a lot going on, but I don’t really know where to start.

David and I plan to get together next week to strategize about the webadmin for Roundware.  Right now, it is very basic and only allows for elemental database updates.  We need to add more functionality as well as make it more user friendly wiht ajaxification etc etc.  I’m very excited to make some progress on this as it will increase the likelihood of other people/institutions wanting to use Roundware for their own purposes.

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