Data management plan for the BuGUI project

Designing Human-Machine interactions for live performance can require representation and control of events throughtime.Several theoretical models have been developed to that effect over the years: some are implemented in software ofvariouscomplexity. When it comes to hardware however, time is mostly understood as linear, unique and regular. This is notablythecase for systems using one of the most prevalent physical interface to edit and play sequences, the button grid, with itsrichhistory, from early drum machines to the ubiquitous Digital Audio Workstation controllers of today. This research,drawingfrom both fields of interactive media notation and New Interfaces for Musical Expression, will explore non-linear temporalmodels and propose an implementation of common physical interfaces and interactions better suited to these models. Aprime candidate for this exploration are the interactive scores as implemented in the software ossia score, wherebranchingtimelines can be drawn to execute media sequences and their processing interactively, in parallel scenarios of variablespeedand duration. The open-ended scheduling ossia score enables necessitates the elaboration of a divergent approach totranslate to a hardware interface for musical expression. Which computing challenges would such a translation entail?Thisinquiry would first have to establish the minimal essential requirement in score’s graphical user interface, and in itstemporalmodel.