A mobile app that synchronizes a band's timing like a metronome over an ad-hoc network.
Challenge
Group performance depends on shared timing, but rehearsal contexts are messy: phones, latency, local networks, and human feel all matter.
Approach
- Modeled synchronization as a lightweight local coordination problem.
- Designed the interface around beat visibility and fast correction.
- Kept the system small enough for hackathon-scale mobile experimentation.
Outcome
- Connected real-time systems thinking with performance and art.
- Showed how local context changes the shape of technical correctness.
- Informed later work on public computation and spatial interfaces.