Proceedings of the 2004 Open Sound Control Conference

Open Sound Control Conferences bring together OSC developers, practicioners, researchers and industry representatives to focus on new work on the protocol and related research in areas in multimedia.

Topics and themes include:

New draft proposals for protocol standarization
Technical discussion of multimedia projects using OSC
Realtime communication issues
Schemas for interpretation of control data
Network discovery services
Musical applications and related concerns
Related research topics

Friday July 30 2004, 9am - 5pm
Hewlett Packard Auditorium (Room #306, Soda Hall)
on the UC Berkley campus

Presented by the UC Berkeley Center for New Music and Audio Technology (CNMAT).
Thanks to the UC Discovery Grant Program for making this event possible.

Proceedings

8:30 - 9:00 am - Registration

9:00 - 9:10 am - Welcome and overview of conference: David Wessel

9:10 - 9:25 am - Brief overview of OSC and its application areas, Matt Wright, Center for New Music and Audio Technologies (CNMAT), UC Berkeley

9:25 - 9:55 am - Keynote address: OSC and Digital Lifestyle Aggregation, Marc Canter, Broadband Mechanics

9:55 - 10:55 am - Paper Session I: Implementations of OSC, (session chair: Matthew Wright)

Dynamic, Distributed and Automated Music Applications in Open Sound World, Amar Chaudhary, Creative Labs and E-MU Systems.
Use of Open Sound Control in SuperCollider Server James McCartney, Apple Computer
Flash OSC, Ben Chun, MIT Media Lab (alum)

10:55 - 11:10 am - Break

11:10 - 12:00 pm - Paper Session II: OSC Hardware, (session chair Adrian Freed)

OSC Device Design Space, Adrian Freed, Research Director, CNMAT.
"EtherSense", an OSC-based sensor platform, Diemo Schwarz, and Emmanuel Flety, IRCAM
OSC and Gesture features of CNMAT's Connectivity Processor, Rimas Avizienis and Adrian Freed, CNMAT
La Kitchen's "Toaster" and "Kroonde" wired and wireless Data-Acquisition Systems, Leslie Stuck, Cycling '74

12:00 - 1:00 pm - Lunch (on-site, included in conference registration)

1:00 - 2:30 pm - Paper Session III: OSC-related research, (session chair David Wessel)

Effects of Latency on Networked Musical Performance, Prof. Chris Chafe and Michael Gurevich, Stanford University Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics (CCRMA)
Clock Synchronization for Interactive Music Systems, Prof. Roger Dannenberg, Carnegie Mellon University
Towards a More Effective OSC Time Tag Scheme, Adrian Freed, CNMAT
Setting up OSC sessions using Voice-over-IP protocols, John Lazzaro, UC Berkeley Computer Science
Discovering OSC services with ZeroConf, Chandrasekar Ramakrishnan

2:30 - 2:45 pm - Break

2:45 - 3:45 pm - Poster Session: Gallery of Projects enabled by OSC

DySE Generator: A sound design tool for virtual reality applications, David Beaudry, Virtual Reality Audio Specialist, UCLA Visualization Portal
SonART - A new multimedia environment for networked collaboration, Woon Yeo, CCRMA
Human/Computer Interaction projects at CCRMA, Michael Gurevich, CCRMA
Quintet.Net: An interactive performance environment for the Internet, Prof. Georg Hajdu, Master's Program in Multimedia and Music, HfMT Hamburg
Real-time Distributed Media Applications in LANs with OSC, Tristan Jehan, Dan Overholt, Hugo SolÃs Garcia, and Cati Vaucelle, MIT Media Lab
Max/MSP OSC Programming Practice, David Wessel, Director, CNMAT
An OSC Driver Framework for Gesture Sensors, Prof. Stephen Pope, UC Santa Barbara Center for Research in Electronic Art Technology (CREATE)
OSC Control of VST Plug-ins, Michael Zbyszynski and Adrian Freed, CNMAT

3:45 - 4:00 pm - Break

4:00 - 4:50 pm - Presentation of Draft Proposals from standardization working groups

Bidirectional XML mapping, Ben Chun, MIT Media Lab (alum)
A Query System for Open Sound Control, Andrew Schmeder, CNMAT
Invitations to form working groups:
- Binary file format
- time tags and synchronization
- schemas (mechanism for publishing and standardizing address spaces and semantics)
- OSC hardware kit
- regular expressions

4:50 - 5:00 pm - Conference wrap-up and future directions for OSC, David Wessel, Director, and Matt Wright, Musical Systems Designer, CNMAT