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Development Tools for Ubiquitous Music on the World Wide Web

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Ubiquitous Music

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This chapter discusses two approaches to provide a general-purpose audio programming support for Ubiquitous Music web applications. It reviews the current state of web audio development and discusses some previous attempts at this. We then introduce a JavaScript version of Csound that has been created using the Emscripten compiler and discuss its features and limitations. In complement to this, we look at a Native Client implementation of Csound, which is a fully functional version of Csound running in Chrome and Chromium browsers.

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  1. 1.

    http://java.oracle.com.

  2. 2.

    http://www.adobe.com/products/flashruntimes.html.

  3. 3.

    http://www.w3.org/TR/webaudio/.

  4. 4.

    http://www.audiotool.com/.

  5. 5.

    http://www.patchwork-synth.com.

  6. 6.

    http://www.noteflight.com.

  7. 7.

    http://www.adobe.com/products/air.html.

  8. 8.

    http://www.flashdevelop.org/.

  9. 9.

    http://www.apple.com/hotnews/thoughts-on-flash/.

  10. 10.

    http://webaudio.prototyping.bbc.co.uk/.

  11. 11.

    http://github.com/charlieroberts/Gibberish.

  12. 12.

    http://github.com/sebpiq/WebPd.

  13. 13.

    See http://caniuse.com/audio-api for browser support.

  14. 14.

    http://dream.cs.bath.ac.uk/netcsound/.

  15. 15.

    http://www.researchcatalogue.net/view/55360/55361.

  16. 16.

    We were unable to find a copy of this online, but one is available from the CD-ROM included with [2].

  17. 17.

    http://asmjs.org/spec/latest/.

  18. 18.

    http://github.com/kripken/emscripten/wiki/Filesystem-API.

  19. 19.

    A working example of CsoundEmscripten can be found at http://eddyc.github.io/CsoundEmscripten. The compiled Csound library and CsoundObj JavaScript class can be found at http://github.com/eddyc/CsoundEmscripten/.

  20. 20.

    http://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=17415\#c94.

  21. 21.

    http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=836897.

  22. 22.

    http://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=107250.

  23. 23.

    http://developers.google.com/native-client.

  24. 24.

    http://sourceforge.net/projects/csound/files/csound6. This is also available at http://vlazzarini.github.io, together with a series of examples and reference documentation.

  25. 25.

    http://www.github.com/csound.

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This research was partly funded by the Program of Research in Third-Level Institutions (PRTLI 5) of the Higher Education Authority (HEA) of Ireland, through the Digital Arts and Humanities programme.

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    Victor Lazzarini, Edward Costello, Steven Yi & John ffitch

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  1. Núcl Amaz. de Pesquisa Musical (NAP), Universidade Federal do Acre (UFAC), Rio Branco, Brazil

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  2. Dept. of Music, Natl Univ of Ireland, Maynooth (NUIM), Co. Kildare, Ireland

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Lazzarini, V., Costello, E., Yi, S., ffitch, J. (2014). Development Tools for Ubiquitous Music on the World Wide Web. In: Keller, D., Lazzarini, V., Pimenta, M. (eds) Ubiquitous Music. Computational Music Science. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-11152-0_6

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