Count-Me-In

Count-Me-In is a collaborative music sequencer that uses a distributed Web architecture to promote audience participation in music performances, installations, and other similar contexts. Audience members take control of individual sequencer tracks using their mobile phones (or any networked device), collaboratively building a music loop or phrase. This dialog represents a disruption in the traditional role played by the audience in a music performance: instead of being passive listeners, attendees become active performers.

Modern musical events create a boundary between performers and the audience, with only the former playing and active role. With Count-Me-In, I aim at making audience members active participants of the performance, adding a new level of playful engagement to music concerts and other music activities. Count-Me-In aims at making such engagement as easy as possible as no additional hardware or software is needed beyond a computing device connected to the Internet.

Creating a playful musical dialog between performers and the audience brings participants of a music event much closer. Count-Me-In brings social music performance to the digital era.