Cloud Bridge: a Data-driven Immersive Audio-Visual Software Interface

Cloud Bridge is an immersive interactive audiovisual software interface for both data exploration and artistic creation. It explores how information sonification and visualization can facilitate findings, by creating interactive visual/musical compositions. Cloud Bridge is a multi-user, multimodal instrument based on a data set representing the history of items checked out by patrons of the Seattle Public Library. A single user or a group of users functioning as a performance ensemble participates in the piece by interactively querying the database using iOS devices. Each device is associated with a unique timbre and color for contributing to the piece, which appears on large shared screens and a surround-sound system for all participants and observers. Cloud Bridge leads to a new media interactive interface utilizing audio synthesis, visualization and real-time interaction.