Interactive Music

So why might we want to make music interactive? How is traditional music interactive or not?

Is the use of technology imperative in creating Interactive Music?

• Why make something interactive?
• Why make interactive music?
• Why NOT make interactive music?

Why Programming?

I automate whatever can be automated to be freer to focus on those aspects of music that can’t be automated. The challenge is to figure out which is which.

• Laurie Spiegel

Music Mouse

Music Mouse - 1986

Laurie Spiegel - East River Dawn

Music Creation Software

• How does the system we use to make music dictate the music we make with it?
• How important is that level of control to you?

Why the Web?

• What are the inputs of the web that make it interactive?

What are the down sides to working on the web?