Cutting-edge Mobile Web Audio

• Name : Boris Smus
• Twitter : @borismus
• Github : borismus
• Website : smus.com

Abstract

The Web Audio API is nearing ubiquity across browsers, and is even available in modern mobile browsers! The combination of audio as output, in addition to all of the interesting inputs (touch, orientation) on mobile devices and external instruments lets you build really cool applications. I'll quickly go over the basics of Web Audio and then dive into a few cutting edge examples:

• Open web mobile musical instruments.
• An introduction to the WebMIDI API and a demo of connected instruments.
• Sound as data via ultrasonic networking applications.
• (stretch) Data as sound for auralization.

Speaker Bio

I work at Google Research as an Engineer/Designer, prototyping the future of multi-screen interactions. I'm also passionate about the web platform, and audio/sound applications and recently wrote a book about the Web Audio API.