Techniques have been developed to facilitate the livestreaming of group audiovisual performances. Audiovisual performances including vocal music are captured and coordinated with performances of other users in ways that can create compelling user and listener experiences. For example, in some cases or embodiments, duets with a host performer may be supported in a sing-with-the-artist style audiovisual livestream in which aspiring vocalists request or queue particular songs for a live radio show entertainment format. The developed techniques provide a communications latency-tolerant mechanism for synchronizing vocal performances captured at geographically-separated devices (e.g., at globally-distributed, but network-connected mobile phones or tablets or at audiovisual capture devices geographically separated from a live studio).

A computerized method is provided that enables an interactive multimedia session between a group of geographically distributed musicians. The method includes song arrangements for the interactive multimedia session being specified as a sequence of song parts to be played or sung by each of the participating geographically distributed musicians. Each musician performance is automatically detected on an instrument track along with audio and video for each musician performance on any song part. The timing for each musician performance is automatically captured by the system. The captured performances are transmitted to the musicians participating in a same session of the geographically distributed musicians to produce the effect of playing with other musicians live in the interactive multimedia session. A computer-implemented system and a computer program product stored on a non-transitory computer-readable storage medium for practice of the method are also provided.

Systems and methods are provided for assembling and displaying a visual ensemble of musical performances that were created and uploaded from one or more locations that are remote from a host of the network, a director or other administrator reviewing submissions for selection and assembly, or perhaps merely remote from one or more other submissions received over a computer network. The assembled performances include a plurality of submissions, the submissions including performances created and uploaded at one or more locations remote from the location of the director for the assembly and display over the computer network. Systems and methods are also included for mapping one performance against another performance qualitatively, quantitatively, in real-time, or some combination thereof, enabling a musician, or a reviewer of performances, in the assessment of one performance relative to another performance.

Vocal audio of a user together with performance synchronized video is captured and coordinated with audiovisual contributions of other users to form composite duet-style or glee club-style or window-paned music video-style audiovisual performances. In some cases, the vocal performances of individual users are captured (together with performance synchronized video) on mobile devices, television-type display and/or set-top box equipment in the context of karaoke-style presentations of lyrics in correspondence with audible renderings of a backing track. Contributions of multiple vocalists are coordinated and mixed in a manner that selects for presentation, at any given time along a given performance timeline, performance synchronized video of one or more of the contributors. Selections are in accord with a visual progression that codes a sequence of visual layouts in correspondence with other coded aspects of a performance score such as pitch tracks, backing audio, lyrics, sections and/or vocal parts.

Disclosed herein is a method for facilitating creating of music in real time by multiple users, in accordance with some embodiments. Accordingly, the method comprises receiving first music segment selections from a first user device, receiving second music segment selections from a second user device, transmitting the first music segment selections to the second user device, and transmitting the second music segment selections to the first user device. Further, each of the first user device and the second user device is configured for retrieving the first music segments, retrieving the second music segments, determining a universal time, synchronizing the second music segments with the first music segments to a common musical beat based on the universal time, mixing the second music segments with the first music segments based on the synchronizing, and generating a mixed music comprising the first music segments and the second music segments based on the mixing.

A collaboration content-generating server that generates collaboration content item in an asynchronous manner includes a database configured to store a collaboration content including a base content corresponding to a root node and a plurality of additional contents corresponding to a plurality of nodes divided from and connected to the root node in a tree structure; an additional content receiving unit configured to receive, from a first user device, a node selected by the first user device and a first additional content that is supplementary to a first collaboration content corresponding the selected node; and a collaboration content generating unit configured to generate a second collaboration content based on the first additional content and the first collaboration content. The collaboration content is generated based on the base content and the plurality of additional contents received at different times from a plurality of user devices.

A musician collaboration system includes a memory configured to store instructions and a processor configured to execute the instructions to: receive a request for providing a feature. The request including receiving a first content file associated with the feature; transmitting a message informing the request; one of transmitting an acceptance of the request and a denial of the request; and upon the acceptance of the request, receiving and transmitting a second content file including a version of the feature.

A system including: an electronic memory device and a processor. The processor is configured to: control a communication device to receive first input information indicating a first instruction, the first instruction corresponding to control of sound associated with at least one first sound source; control a transmitter of the communication device to transmit first information to an audio output device, the first information corresponding to the first input information indicating the first instruction; control the communication device to receive second input information indicating a second instruction corresponding to control of sound associated with the at least one second sound source; and control the transmitter to transmit second information to the audio output device, the second information including or corresponding to an audio signal associated with the at least one second sound source and processed according to the second input information indicating the second instruction.

Systems and methods are provided for assembling and displaying a visual ensemble of musical performances that were created and uploaded from one or more locations that are remote from a host of the network, a director or other administrator reviewing submissions for selection and assembly, or perhaps merely remote from one or more other submissions received over a computer network. The assembled performances include a plurality of submissions, the submissions including performances created and uploaded at one or more locations remote from the location of the director for the assembly and display over the computer network. Systems and methods are also included for mapping one performance against another performance qualitatively, quantitatively, in real-time, or some combination thereof, enabling a musician, or a reviewer of performances, in the assessment of one performance relative to another performance.

Embodiments described herein relate generally to systems comprising a display device, a display device-coupled computing platform, a mobile device in communication with the computing platform, and a content server in which methods and techniques of capture and/or processing of audiovisual performances are described and, in particular, description of techniques suitable for use in connection with display device connected computing platforms for rendering vocal performance captured by a handheld computing device.