Hyperscore: a graphical sketchpad for novice composers

Farbood, Morwaread; Pasztor, Egon; Jennings, Kevin

doi:10.1109/mcg.2004.1255809

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“…MusiCam also has considerable scope for developing into a tool for music education, much like the Hyperscore system [12]; a graphical compositional software utility which interprets gestures and strokes as musical ideas.…”

Section: User Feedback and Further Plansmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…An aim therefore is to establish whether this type of HCI serves as a useful interaction mechanism for these students, as well as an interactive toy. Just as Hyperscore [12] allows children to leap over the obstacle of musical notation and technique in order to express their compositional creativity, the MusiCam software hopes to give children the opportunity to make instrumental music before they have achieved the mastery of the techniques of a conventional instrument.…”

Section: Conclusion "The Sound Of Colour Is So Definite That Is Woulmentioning

confidence: 99%

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MusiCam: an instrument to demonstrate chromaphonic synesthesia

Yau

McCrindle

2007

Digital Creativity

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This paper details the design and development of a novel musical controller. Inspired by a type of Synesthesia where colour typically induces musical notes, MusiCam explores the potential benefits of this idiosyncrasy as a mode of Human Computer Interaction (HCI), providing a host of meaningful applications. Colour data is interpreted by means of an off the shelf webcam, and music is generated in real-time through regular speakers. This simple design flexibility allows for any personal computer to take on the identity of an interactive musical device.

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Section: User Feedback and Further Plansmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Conclusion "The Sound Of Colour Is So Definite That Is Woulmentioning

confidence: 99%

MusiCam: an instrument to demonstrate chromaphonic synesthesia

Yau

McCrindle

2007

Digital Creativity

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“…Following this an individual and a pair of musicians were observed using 2 software composition tools -Fruity Loops (www.fruityloops.com) and Hyperscore [11] -for a total period of 1½ hours. These tools were chosen from a selection of evaluated software because they were both sufficiently different from each other to provide interesting comparison, and simple enough that the essentials of using them could be taught through a short tutorial.…”

Section: Observations Of Compositionmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…The main identified use of this is for communication between collaborators, however the ability to identify elements by various characteristics is expected to aid individual processability [30]. Colours [11] or spatial relationships [2] provide differentiation methods to support this and their utility is explored in our work. Research by Nakakoji et.…”

Section: Requirementsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Interaction in creative tasks

Coughlan

Johnson

2006

Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

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The design of tools for creative activities affects the creative processes and output of users. In this paper we consider how an understanding of creative interaction can inform the design of support tools in a creative domain, and where creative needs cross domain boundaries. Using observations of musical composers we analyse the theoretical approaches to understanding creativity and their use to HCI. Cycles of ideation and evaluation are suggested as atomic elements of creative interactions, with the representation of ideas a central activity for individual and collaborating composers. A model of collaborative composition was developed, along with an analysis of the representational types used in the domain. This led to the design and evaluation of a prototype Sonic Sketchpad for musical idea representation.

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“…Many research articles indicate that the education material with music technology aided tools can improve children's concentration and learning efficiency [7,8,9,10]. A successful case of music technology aided game tool for children education is "Hyperscore" [11,12] presented by MIT Media Lab, which helps children to compose music with the simple curves and graphics easily. In the recent research, computer music aided tools for education has been widely adopted, such as the tool developed by Janet McDowall with MIDI sequencer as the interactive computer music tutorial to reduce the complexity of the music composition for the children [13].…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%