Research Topic
An Interactive Music Instrument: Desk SynthesisBackground
Gray (August 2, 1835 – January 21, 1901) was an American electrical engineer who co-founded the Western Electric Manufacturing Company. Gray is best known for his development of a telephone prototype in 1876 in Highland Park, Illinois and is considered by some writers to be the true inventor of the variable resistance telephone, despite losing out to Alexander Graham Bell for the telephone patent.
Gray is also considered to be the father of the modern music synthesizer, and was awarded over 70 patents for his inventions.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elisha_Gray)
A synthesizer, or "synth", is an electronic musical instrument that uses filters and tone generators to create waveforms which are then processed to generate sound. Modern synthesizers can closely reproduce the sound of some instruments, but many keyboard players use them for their characteristic sound. They are sometimes referred to as "sound" or "music" synthesizers.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synthesizer)
In this project, the focus will be more in experimental on human interaction and music. To change the old way of playing music instrument that lacks of interaction and enjoyment. More research and surveys will be conducted to obtain results.
Problem Identification
As we all know that, most of the music instruments are expensive and some may not. We may require musical knowledge to play music instrument.Aim and Objectives
This project aims to change the new way of playing music instrument in full of interaction and applying the latest music technology, graphics and computer vision.
- To open people’s eyes and minds about music and multimedia.
- To explore more about the world of technology that has developed rapidly.
- To create the future music instrument.
- To encourage people to play music instrument even though they have no musical knowledge.
- To design new music interface that is user friendly.
Motivation
I love music so much and even explore more about music instruments and genres that available. Sometimes I will do experimental projects together with my friends about making new music, sounds and applying some cool audio effects. There is one time that when I was watching videos on YouTube there is a gadget that can create effects sound and even people that don’t have any musical knowledge can play the instrument freely.
Base on the gadget itself, now I’m trying to do something about it. To change the way on how people play music instruments by adding some human computer interaction and cool audio effects in it.
Ideation and Concept
For my project, I would like to design a new music instrument that has human computer interaction in it and to people who doesn’t have any knowledge of music can play it to form a cool nice song.Review, Analysis and Precedence Studies
reacTIVision 1.4
reacTIVision is an open source, cross-platform computer vision framework for the fast and robust tracking of fiducially markers attached onto physical objects, as well as for multi-touch finger tracking. It was mainly designed as a toolkit for the rapid development of table-based tangible user interfaces (TUI) and multi-touch interactive surfaces.
MIDI-OX
MIDI-OX is a Windows 95/NT program (also Win98/Me/2000/XP/Vista). It is a 32 bit program which will not operate under earlier versions of Windows. MIDI-OX is a multi-purpose tool: it is both a diagnostic tool and a System Exclusive librarian. It can perform filtering and mapping of MIDI data streams. It displays incoming MIDI streams, and passes the data to a MIDI output driver or the MIDI Mapper. You can generate MIDI data using the computer keyboard or the built-in control panel. You can even record and log MIDI data and then convert it to a Standard MIDI File for playback by a sequencer.
Design Approach
Basically, this project involves more in human computer interaction and music with a bit of programming. By using cube and contains several symbols on it; technically every symbols has their own sounds. Lots of MIDI samples will be use and a box as its platform.
References
- Marco A. (2006, October 25). Reactable: basic demo #1. [Video file] Retrieved from http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0h-RhyopUmc
- Marco A. (2007, February 21). Reactable live in Berlin. [Video file] Retrieved from http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vm_FzLya8y4
- Reactable Systems. (2010) from http://www.reactable.com
- http://www.midiox.com/
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