Mapping Middleware is a technique for connecting components (either software or hardware) of multimedia systems. This includes Digital Musical Instruments (DMIs) and many other creativity support tools. We’ve worked on building the libmapper project, which is an open-source and cross platform software library that handles distributed mappings across a shared network.
In order to make a distributed mapping system as effective as possible, it is our goal to include as many endpoints / bridges / bindings to popular software / programming languages / hardware as possible. We’ve worked on extending the libmapper ecosystem to support several new endpoints, including Eurorack, FAUST, and JavaScript.

Please take a look at the libmapper project page for more information about that aspect of our larger project.
Current Researchers
Past Contributors
- Kyle Smith
Current Publications
We aim to actively share our work with the larger research community. Here is a selected list of our publications to date.
Extending Networked Mapping Research Middleware Into the Browser Sandbox Proceedings Article
In: Proceedings of the IEEE International Symposium on the Internet of Sounds, IEEE Communications Society Erlangen, Germany, 2024.
Maplet: Integrating Distributed Data Signal Mappings for Performative Interactions Within the Eurorack Modular Synthesizer Ecosystem Proceedings Article
In: Proceedings of the International Audio Mostly Conference, Milan, Italy, 2024.
FAUSTMapper: Facilitating Complex Mappings for Smart Musical Instruments Best Paper Proceedings Article
In: Proceedings of the 4th International Symposium on the Internet of Sounds (IS2), Pisa, Italy, 2023.