MoveOSC — Smart Watches in Mobile Music Performance
Smart watches with motion sensors offer the potential of bringing hand-gesture based music performance to a large audience by removing the need for custom hardware. It further removes artifacts from the hand, as would be present when a smart phone or a motion-controller such as the Wiimote are used. We discuss the potential and technical limitations of a current generation commodity smart watch (Pebble) and describe contribution to music software on mobile devices. By using Open Sound Control (OSC) as well as ZeroConf/Bonjour networking an accessible setup for musical control by smart watches is provided. Furthermore the integration into the mobile music environment urMus allows flexible use in a broad range of more sophisticated performances.