Team Holotronica — VEQUENCER

World renowned audio visual innovator and part of Hexstatic and Holotronica, Stuart Warren-Hill was looking for a new way for people to be able to engage with the tracks he makes and provide new ways to interact with them. He'd had the idea of an application that would allow people to remix his tracks. We extended this idea with the ability to have an app which can allow people using multiple devices to collaborate on the creation of their own audio visual art based on the sounds and images which are used in the Holotronica track The Sentinel.
We call this Vequencer and it's the world’s first, real time, multi-device audio visual sequencer.

The app plays a continuous 2 bar loop and the user can select from 8 different sounds to be played on each beat by tapping or swiping over the indicators around the edge of the screen. In addition to the sounds being played, the visuals are also animated in response to the selected beats.

Multiple phones on the same local network can work together as the timing and the beats selected on one are automatically synchronised with all others.

The video shows the app running on 2 devices side by side. Note the indicator moving round the edge to indicate the current beat and how when a beat is highlighted on one phone the same beat is highlighted on the other.

Collaborators:
Stuart Warren-Hill
Hexstatic (http://vimeo.com/hexstatic/)
Holotronica (http://www.holotronica.com/)
@stuarthexstatic

Martin Caine
XNA UK Usergroup (http://xna-uk.net/blogs/martincaine/)
Retroburn Game Studios (http://retroburngames.com/)
@martincaine

Matt Lacey
Windows Phone User Group (http://wpug.net)
@mrlacey

Simon Jackson
XNA UK Usergroup (http://xna-uk.net/blogs/darkgenesis/)
@ddreaper