The IMTR Team conducts research and development on interactive music systems, gesture and sound modeling, interactive music synthesis, gesture capture systems and interfaces. The applications cover music performance and more generally all the performing arts. The use of digital techniques can be seen as augmenting or creating new performer’s instruments – transforming sound, voice, gestures, memory - creating dialogues between artists and digital media.

FAUST (Functional Audio Stream) is a functional programming language specifically designed for real-time signal processing and synthesis. FAUST targets high-performance signal processing applications and audio plug-ins for a variety of platforms and standards.

Syphon is a Mac OS X technology that allows applications to share frames - full frame rate video or stills - with one another in realtime, instantly.

excellent overview article on realtime audio programming

Real-time audio programming 101: time waits for nothing

The Cincinnati RealTime Composers was founded at the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music in 2005 under the instruction of Alan Bern. Moving from individual impulses to complex forms, the class sought to expose classical musicians to group improvisation. Now a regularly performing ensemble, the group has performed at a variety of venues, from concert halls to cafes. In December of 2006, the group presented their work at the first ever conference of the International Society for Improvised Music in Ann Arbor, Michigan

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This book is an independent project based on Designing Sound by Andy Farnell, all about the principles and techniques needed to design sound effects for real-time synthesis. The original book provides examples in the PureData language - here we have re-created some of the examples using SuperCollider.

In order to boost its Wave product, Google has acquired AppJet, which makes the EtherPad real-time workgroup collaboration application.