Towards the Internet of Musical Things

Luca Turchet This talk will focus on Smart Instruments, Musical
Haptic Wearables, and the Internet of Musical Things. Smart
Instruments is a novel family of musical instruments characterized
by embedded computational intelligence and wireless connectivity.
Musical Haptic Wearables are a novel class of wearable devices
encompassing haptic stimulation, gesture tracking, and wireless
connectivity features. They were conceived to enhance communication
between performers as well as between performers and audience
members by leveraging the sense of touch. Smart Instruments and
Musical Haptic Wearables offer direct point-to-point communication
between each other and other portable sensor-enabled devices. Such
technological infrastructure enables an ecosystem of interoperable
devices connecting performers as well as performers and audiences,
which can support new performer-performer and audience-performer
interactions in co-located and remote settings. This has paved the
way for the definition of the Internet of Musical Things (IoMusT),
where the concept of the Internet of Things is extended to the
musical domain. IoMusT refers to the network of computing devices
embedded in physical objects (Musical Things) dedicated to the
production and/or reception of musical content. Musical Things are
connected by an infrastructure that enables multidirectional
communication, both locally and remotely. The IoMusT digital
ecosystem gathers interoperable devices and services that connect
performers and audiences to support performer-performer and
audience-performers interactions, not possible beforehand. 
The talk will present some cutting edge IoMusT technologies
produced in both academia and industry as well as their
applications. This talk is hosted by the Berlin Music Commission