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Mobile Music with the Faust Programming Language

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Perception, Representations, Image, Sound, Music (CMMR 2019)

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Abstract

The Faust programming language has been playing a role in the mobile music landscape for the past ten years. Multiple tools to facilitate the development of musical smartphone applications for live performance such as faust2ios, faust2android, faust2api, and faust2smartkeyb have been implemented and used in the context of a wide range of large scale musical projects. Similarly, various digital musical instruments leveraging these tools and based on the concept of augmenting mobile devices have been created. This paper gives an overview of the work done on these topics and provide directions for future developments.

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Notes

  1. 1.

    https://faust.grame.fr (All URLs presented in this paper were verified on May 6, 2020).

  2. 2.

    http://www.grame.fr.

  3. 3.

    Architectures in the Faust vocabulary refer to wrappers allowing to turn a Faust program into a specific object such as standalone desktop program, an audio plug-in, a smartphone app, an audio engine for a specific platform, etc.

  4. 4.

    https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/sfcapture/id799532659?mt=8.

  5. 5.

    Digital Signal Processing.

  6. 6.

    https://faust.grame.fr/doc/manual#sensors-control-metadatas.

  7. 7.

    https://github.com/google/oboe/.

  8. 8.

    https://faust.grame.fr/doc/manual#standard-polyphony-parameters.

  9. 9.

    https://faust.grame.fr/doc/manual#sensors-control-metadatas.

  10. 10.

    https://ccrma.stanford.edu/~rmichon/smartKeyboard/.

  11. 11.

    https://ccrma.stanford.edu/~rmichon/faustTutorials/#making-faust-based-smartphone-musical-instruments.

  12. 12.

    Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics.

  13. 13.

    Agence Nationale de Recherche: French National Research Agency.

  14. 14.

    High speed train system in France.

  15. 15.

    French National Railway Company.

  16. 16.

    https://faust.grame.fr/faustplayground.

  17. 17.

    Field Programmable Gate Arrays.

  18. 18.

    Graphical Processor Units.

  19. 19.

    https://wiki.analog.com/resources/tools-software/sharc-audio-module/faust.

  20. 20.

    https://www.pjrc.com/store/teensy36.html.

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    Romain Michon, Yann Orlarey, Stéphane Letz, Dominique Fober & Catinca Dumitrascu

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Michon, R., Orlarey, Y., Letz, S., Fober, D., Dumitrascu, C. (2021). Mobile Music with the Faust Programming Language. In: Kronland-Martinet, R., Ystad, S., Aramaki, M. (eds) Perception, Representations, Image, Sound, Music. CMMR 2019. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 12631. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-70210-6_20

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