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? First Name Email Address

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..

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

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Liberate Music Learning Remote Teaching & Visualisation Toolset

Connect Emotional Intelligence Rise Above The Algorithmic

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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.

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Instant Comparative Musicology Thru Freely Configurable Interworking

Animate Musical Storytelling Data, Goal, Story, Metaphor

Celebrate Instrumental Diversity With Easily Assembled Online Models

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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.

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Energise The Notation See Animation Potential Everywhere

Dataviz The Propellant Music The Payload

*OWN* The Theory Score-Synchronised Abstract Models

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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: 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.

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Keywords

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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