Roundware is a flexible, distributed framework which collects, stores, organizes and re-presents audio content. Basically, it lets you collect audio from anyone with a smartphone or web access, upload it to a central repository along with its metadata and then filter it and play it back collectively in continuous audio streams.
With Roundware, you can:
- collect audio from participants via iOS, Android and web-based devices
- tag collected audio with location information as well as any additional project-based metadata such as age, gender or occupation
- create a seamless location-sensitive layer of audio comprised of musical elements and participant commentary in any geographic space
- organize an ever-growing collection of participant contributed audio information
- serve individualized audio streams to users in a flexible non-linear way based on participant inputs
Roundware is an actively-developed open-source project and is free for anyone to use. It was initially developed for sound art installations, but has since been used for innovative museum audio tours as well as other educational purposes.
Soon, Roundware will be expanded to include not only audio, but video, photos and text as well.
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