Audimance is a tool for the creation and deployment of user-directed artistic audio experiences. Content may be designed for use in isolation, as accompaniment to other media, or in conjunction with live performance using QLab.
Audimance enables a user-centered, flexibly complex, audio environment ideal for nonvisual audiences and can be used to provide either single-track or multi-track audio description. Content can be spatialized.
Audimance provides a flexible deployment platform which:
- permits artists and content creators to easily deploy single or multi-track content
- facilitates venues in providing consistently available accessibility without large dedicated hardware systems
- creates user-directed aesthetic experiences which prioritize user agency for style and complexity
Critically, Audimance is designed to facilitate the use of pre-recorded descriptive content for performing arts synchronized via QLab or other (OSC or UDP) network cue delivery mechanisms for accurate and finely timed delivery of accessible communal experience.
Conversion from the alpha webapp to a native mobile deployment is necessary to facilitate ease of use for audiences, artists, and venues as well as to implement both necessary and nice-to-have UI features.
Actions We are actively forming a team and soliciting support for this major milestone. If you are interested in participating, or if your company can support this effort, please reach out.
Currently, content is manually adjusted, uploaded, and spatially placed by editing the text fille. This needs a GUI plus functionality for auto-adjusting audio files and spatializing the result for novice users.
Currently, show selection and content availability is managed by network access. Moving forward, for a cloud-based service venue operators or artists will need to be able to set up venues and events with geofencing and time bounds for IP protection.
Based on research conducted by Kinetic Light, the design model pioneered in Audimance's alpha deployment has been determined to also be suitable for deploying accessible content for d/Deaf & Hard-of-Hearing audiences.
Actions Back-end refactor for content type flexibility //COMPLETE Determine architecture of single/dual deployments //IN-PROCESS Design UI for visual content //NEEDS DOING
Audimance needs user documentation for content creation, end-users, and venues.