World Music's DIVERSITY and Data Visualisation's EXPRESSIVE POWER collide. A galaxy of INTERACTIVE, SCORE-DRIVEN instrument model and theory tool animations is born. Entirely Graphical Toolset Supporting World Music Teaching & Learning Via Video Chat ◦ Paradigm Change ◦ Music Visualization Greenfield ◦ Crowd Funding In Ramp-Up ◦ Please Share

Friday, March 10, 2017

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World Music Visualization / Visualisation Aggregator Platform: Overview


Project any score or exercise into an immersive, personalised, 2- or 3D graphical learning playground comprising interactive instrument and music theory models for any world music system. Soak up context-rich native theory with every score or exercise.

Potential Crowdfunder?


Connect core animations (instrument models and theory tools) via P2P notation controls, and you have the basis for a video chat remote learning support toolset. With video chat already used extensively in remote music learning, this is an application area humming with opportunity.

World Music's DIVERSITY and Data Visualisation's EXPRESSIVE POWER collide. A galaxy of INTERACTIVE, SCORE-DRIVEN instrument model and theory tool animations is born.


Could this be the future of online music education?

Big, brave, open-source, non-profit, community-provisioned, cross-cultural and skid mark crazy. → Like, share, back-link, pin, tweet and mail. Hashtags? For the crowdfunding: #VisualFutureOfMusic. For the future live platform: #WorldMusicInstrumentsAndTheory. Or simply register as a potential crowdfunder..


Data Visualisation + World Music + P2P Connectivity
End Goal? Global Musical Interworking..



Visualisation Toolset: Liberate ALL Music Learning. #VisualFutureOfMusic #WorldMusicInstrumentsAndTheory
Liberate Music Learning
Remote Teaching & Visualisation Toolset
Visualisation Toolset: Connect Emotional Intelligence. #VisualFutureOfMusic #WorldMusicInstrumentsAndTheoryConnect Emotional Intelligence
Rise Above The Algorithmic
World Music Theory, Instrument Models, Community Music and Dance. aggregate().orchestrate().animate() #VisualFutureOfMusic #WorldMusicInstrumentsAndTheory
Set Them Dancing Together
aggregate().orchestrate().animate()


Notation-driven. Project any score or exercise into an immersive, personalised, 2- or 3D graphical learning playground comprising interactive instrument and music theory models for any world music system. Soak up context-rich native theory with every piece.


Music Visualisation: Notation, Instruments, Theory - Freely Configurable Interworking #VisualFutureOfMusic #WorldMusicInstrumentsAndTheory Instant Comparative Musicology
Thru Freely Configurable Interworking
Animate Musical Storytelling: Data, Goal, Story, Metaphor #VisualFutureOfMusic #WorldMusicInstrumentsAndTheoryAnimate Musical Storytelling
Data, Goal, Story, Metaphor
Visualisation Toolset: Celebrate Instrumental Diversity. #VisualFutureOfMusic #WorldMusicInstrumentsAndTheoryCelebrate Instrumental Diversity
With Easily Assembled Online Models


Building out from 12-tone equal temperament, this platform has the potential to dramatically extend the P2P learning, teaching and expressive capabilities of every musician. Can human emotions and virtuosity transcend technology? Only empowerment will tell.


Visualisation Toolset: Energise The Notation #VisualFutureOfMusic #WorldMusicInstrumentsAndTheoryEnergise The Notation
See Animation Potential Everywhere
Dataviz The Propellant Music The Payload. #VisualFutureOfMusic #WorldMusicInstrumentsAndTheoryDataviz The Propellant
Music The Payload
Visualisation Toolset: Score-Synchronised Abstract Models #VisualFutureOfMusic #WorldMusicInstrumentsAndTheory*OWN* The Theory
Score-Synchronised Abstract Models





 Current State: Online Focus on a Tiny Range of Instruments #VisualFutureOfMusic #WorldMusicInstrumentsAndTheory
Current State: Online Focus on a Tiny Range of Instruments
A significant problem with current online music education offerings is that such a tiny range of instruments are featured.

Most of these reflect the sounds and conventions of western art and popular music, leaving many of the world's most intriguing folk, traditional, heritage and experimental instruments entirely unrepresented.

Indeed, a structured, robust and consequently modelled web presence for world music instruments and theory models is one of the few remaining 'low hanging fruit' and 'greenfield' application areas yet to be addressed in the online social music arena.

Given the domain's complexity, the most sensible and pragmatic approach seems that of an aggregator environment - bringing all the data, tools and information together in one carefully orchestrated virtual platform. Moreover, the browser gives us access to some of the most powerful and flexible interworking and multimedia tools in existence. Exploiting them to musician's advantage is the goal of this project.

End Goal: Every World Instrument Family Fully Modelled #VisualFutureOfMusic #WorldMusicInstrumentsAndTheory
End Goal: World Instrument Families (Use-)Fully Modelled
Moreover, given the often strong cultural importance associated with particular instruments, the underlying business concept should ensure the platform is acceptable across a wide range of ethnic and other boundaries.

Our goal therefore is a single, global and non-profit online platform for world music teaching, supporting a comprehensive range of source formats, instrument models, in-browser tools and end devices.

Carefully conceived and executed, the platform could be overlaid with a wide range of services, providing entirely new and innovative earnings channels to the world's virtuoso instrumentalists, and a direct, intuitive and powerful toolset for learners.

Though at first sight a daunting task, in the long run this promises high community, social and end user value:
  • simple, intuitive and entirely graphical end-to-end toolset and process support for P2P teaching worldwide
  • full microtonal score support using a variety of world music notation systems.
  • fill the many gaps in online, interactive world music instrument modelling
  • answers -in purely visual form- to music-theoretical questions outwith the realm of the so-called 'classical' or 'western' music system.
In this sense the platform can be thought of both as window onto world music instrumental diversity, and playpen for musical invention and experiment.

All this is entirely realisable. It just needs patience... and funding.



Keywords



online music learning,
online music lessons
distance music learning,
distance music lessons
remote music lessons,
remote music learning
p2p music lessons,
p2p music learning
music visualisation
music visualization
musical instrument models
interactive music instrument models
music theory tools
musical theory
p2p music interworking
p2p musical interworking
comparative musicology
ethnomusicology
world music
international music
folk music
traditional music
P2P musical interworking,
Peer-to-peer musical interworking
WebGL, Web3D,
WebVR, WebAR
Virtual Reality,
Augmented or Mixed Reality
Artificial Intelligence,
Machine Learning
Scalar Vector Graphics,
SVG
3D Cascading Style Sheets,
CSS3D
X3Dom,
XML3D


Comments, questions and (especially) critique welcome.