Designing web-based music applications

The goal of this Special Topics Seminar is to investigate new technologies available for developing web-based music applications. The format will be project oriented where students will report on technologies and build simple applications.

• Java Media Framework 2.0
• Java Sound Engine
• Java SDK 1.2
• Netscape JavaScript/CGI
• Navigator plug-in

• MacroMedia ShockWave 7
• Shockwave Audio Streaming
• IBM HotMedia Toolkit (local demo), Bamba
• MediaBeans, Music Sketcher, etc.
• VRML with sound
• The Annotated VRML97 Reference Manual

• Ear Training
• Virtual scale constructor / tuner
• Virtual Metronome
• MIDI Sequencer (Sun & Windoz)
• Controlling CD player via Web (emulation of currently unavailable Voyager plug-in CDLink)

• 99/02/23 Sullivan: ShockWave
• 99/03/02 Lindgren: VRML
• 99/03/09 Place: OpenSound Control
• 99/03/23 Kim: Quicktime (Streaming Video)
• 99/03/30 MacMillan: Java Media Framework
• 99/04/06 Sullivan: Demonstration
• 99/04/13 Lindgren: Demonstration
• 99/04/20 Place: Demonstration
• 99/04/27 Kim: Demonstration
• 99/05/04 MacMillan: Demonstration (Tuning Appliance)