On our Past, Present, and Future with Web Audio Technologies
summary
A participatory keynote builds a browser-based system that lets the audience join by phone and headphone, hand a mic between users, and form ad hoc jams — tested with 88 people and earlier performances called Grain Field and 88 fingers. The demo actually runs but intermittently stalls and crashes on some mobiles. Concrete requests include better native support for Web Audio in React Native apps and an API feature to allow runtime tempo change so buffers and timing adapt without reload.
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chapters (12)
- 0:00Introduction and keynote setup
- 1:05History of Web Audio Conference
- 3:14Music as social relationship
- 6:51Web as a force for good
- 8:58Participatory keynote instructions
- 14:07Web Audio community discussion
- 21:25Web Audio API experiences
- 26:09Current Web Audio projects
- 31:34Call to keep collaborating
- 33:28Grandmother explanation and errors
- 35:46Live coding and API improvements
- 38:11Conclusion and thanks