Tactile Composition Systems for Collaborative Free sound

Numerous innovative controllers and collaborative tactile interfaces have been developed for social interaction with sound. This evolutionary field of interaction design has led to a wide range of compositional models that increasingly mirror the open source methodologies developed by the creators of such systems. The authors consider the software integration of such systems as a potential model for free sound composition. We speculate on how these integrative approaches are leading to new compositional frameworks for distributed composition, providing an overview of how an open source development approach influences the structure, interaction design and compositional output of such systems. The range of related works in this field is considerable, selected examples are considered in terms of interaction models & compositional approaches that offer a free sound or open source model for social collaboration with the potential for distributed composition.