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Integra Live: a new software environment for the composition and performance of live electronic music

Integra Live is a new software environment for composing and performing live electronic music, developed as part of the 7-year, €3.1m Integra Project. Integra Live has received over 12,000 downloads worldwide since its official release in 2010, and has been used in many international public performances, including the Integra festival in Copenhagen and Bouffes du Nord in Paris.

Integra Live transforms creative practice by enabling musicians with no technology experience to incorporate live sound manipulation and synthesis into their compositions and performances. This has led to its adoption in teaching programs at San José State University and Liszt Academy of Music. (See also Impact Case Study.)

Coccioli’s role was to oversee the design of new interaction models and new paradigms for musician-computer interaction, forming the basis for the research and development process. This included devising new models for temporal representation and navigation within a musical work. Coccioli also tested the software extensively with established professional composers and performers. See also Bullock_01 and Coccioli_04.

Supporting research:

Bullock, J. & Frisk, H., 2011: ‘The Integra Framework for rapid modular audio application development’, Proceedings of the 2011 International Computer Music Conference (ICMC); ICMA, UK.

Bullock, J., Beattie, D. & Turner, J., 2011: ‘Integra Live: a new graphical user interface for live electronic music’, Proceedings of the 2011 New Interfaces for Music Expression conference; NIME, Oslo.

Bullock, J. & Frisk, H., 2009: ‘An Object Oriented Model for the Representation of Temporal Data in the Integra Framework’, Proceedings of the 2009 ICMC; ICMA, Montreal.

Bullock, J. and Frisk, H., 2007: ‘libIntegra: a system for software-independent multimedia module description and storage’, Proceedings of the 2007 ICMC; ICMA, Copenhagen.