Tilde: Collaborative Multi-Modal Music Making on the Web
Ashvala Vinay (Georgia Institute of Technology)*; Ian Clester (NoneType)
- Workshops Signup
- Type: Hybrid
- Room Location: LDN 4.01
- Session: Workshops Morning
- Morning (9am-1pm)
- Signup Deadline: June 19th AoE (first-come first-served)
- Contact Email: here
Abstract:
This workshop introduces Tilde, a browser-based collaborative music environment where audio, MIDI, code, patches, timelines, and notation coexist as first-class objects on an infinite canvas. Language runtimes for general-purpose languages (Python, JavaScript, C++) and computer music languages (Faust, ChucK, Csound, Pure Data) execute in the browser via WebAssembly, so no installation is required beyond a modern browser. Multiple users can interact with the same canvas simultaneously, and canvases are shareable via URL. After a guided introduction in which attendees join a single collaborative canvas, participants form small groups to build musical works together on shared canvases, closing with a facilitated discussion on how a polyglot, multi-paradigm environment shapes creative collaboration.