%0 Conference Paper %B International Computer Music Conference (ICMC) %D 1997 %T Open Sound Control: A New Protocol for Communicating with Sound Synthesizers %A Wright, Matthew %A Freed, Adrian %C Thessaloniki, Hellas %I International Computer Music Association (ICMA) %K OSC %P 101-104 %U http://cnmat.berkeley.edu/http://hdl.handle.net/2027/spo.bbp2372.1997.033/open_sound_control_new_protocol_communicating_sound_synthesizers %X Open SoundControl is a new protocol for communication among computers, sound synthesizers, and other multimedia devices that is optimized for modern networking technology. Entities within a system are addressed individually by an open-ended URL-style symbolic naming scheme that includes a powerful pattern matching language to specify multiple recipients of a single message. We provide high resolution time tags and a mechanism for specifying groups of messages whose effects are to occur simultaneously. There is also a mechanism for dynamically querying an Open SoundControl system to find out its capabilities and documentation of its features. %8 1997 %> http://www.adrianfreed.com/sites/default/files/open-soundcontrol-a-new-protocol-for-communicating-with.pdf