Conceitos e tecnologias para educação musical baseada na web

O presente trabalho insere-se no contexto das pesquisas realizadas no Laboratório de Computação & Música do Instituto de Informática da UFRGS. Com ele pretendemos fundamentar e investigar possibilidades em educação musical através da World Wide Web (WWW ou, simplesmente, Web). Para isso, em um primeiro momento, investigamos como desenvolver adequadamente sistemas educativo-musicais para a Web. Queremos aproveitar uma das principais vantagens que a Web oferece para a educação: a de facilitar a disponibilização e o acesso ao conteúdo educativo. Especificamente nesta área do conhecimento - Música -, é rara a pesquisa visando utilizar a Web como suporte. A Internet continua impondo sérias limitações ao emprego de multimídia e ainda mais quando seus dados representam informações sonoras e musicais. Devido a isso, os poucos estudos existentes optam ou por uma simplificação exagerada do sistema ou por soluções proprietárias muito complicadas, que podem reduzir a facilidade de acesso do público-alvo. Assim, no presente trabalho procuramos encontrar um meio-termo: uma solução de compromisso entre a funcionalidade que se espera de tais sistemas, a sua operacionalidade e a simplicidade que a Internet ainda impõe. Para atingir esse objetivo, nos concentramos em promover a interatividade entre o aluno e um ambiente de aprendizado distribuído para o domínio musical. Buscamos fundamentar essa interatividade a partir de: a) conceitos pertinentes a uma interação de boa qualidade para propósitos de ensino/aprendizagem; e b) adoção de tecnologias da Web para música que permitam a implementação adequada desses conceitos. Portanto este trabalho é eminentemente interdisciplinar, envolvendo principalmente estudos das áreas de Interação Humano-Computador, Educação Musical e Multimídia. Após essa fase inicial de fundamentação, investigamos uma solução possível para esse problema na forma de um protótipo de um sistema educativo-musical na Web, tendo em vista os seguintes requisitos: · Ser fácil de programar, mas suficiente para satisfazer os requisitos de sistemas musicais. · Ser acessível, útil e usável pelos seus usuários (notadamente alunos e educadores musicais). Esse protótipo - INTERVALOS, que visa auxiliar o ensino/aprendizagem da teoria de intervalos, arpejos e escalas musicais - é uma ferramenta que pode ser integrada a um ambiente mais completo de educação musical na Web, incluindo as demais tecnologias da Internet necessárias para implementar Ensino a Distancia de música nesse meio. INTERVALOS foi submetido a avaliações de usabilidade e avaliações pedagógicas, por meio das quais pretendemos validar o grau de adequação da fundamentação teórica (conceitos) e tecnológica (tecnologias) para educação musical baseada na Web.

Computador e seus componentes

Esta animação cria o ambiente ficcional de uma viagem ao mundo cibernético e apresenta as partes mais importantes do computador. Pontualmente, traz uma definição dos seguintes componentes: Mouse, Teclado, Hard Disk (HD), Placa de Vídeo, Placa de Rede, Placa de som e Memória Ram através da navegação interativa em salas destinadas a cada componente.

Teclas paralelas: a dimensão literário-musical em Os teclados, de Teolinda Gersão

Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico (CNPq)

As redes harmônicas de Pousseur aplicadas à composição musical em tempo real

Pós-graduação em Música - IA

La música electrónica : siglo XX : influencia del desarrollo tecnológico en la creación musical

Fil: Antón, Susana. Universidad Nacional de Cuyo. Facultad de Artes y Diseño

SURI: Controlador MIDI por medio de un teclado de computador

El presente artículo narra las experiencias del desarrollo de Suri, un programa informático que permite enviar información MIDI a otros programas por medio del teclado del computador y combina las características lingüísticas de un editor de texto con elementos tecnológicos y musicales -- Del mismo modo, relata la forma en la que se conectó el desarrollo de este programa con la búsqueda de nuevas herramientas para la composición musical y describe sus diversas funciones y generalidades técnicas

Generation in context : an exploratory method for musical enquiry

This paper discusses a method, Generation in Context, for interrogating theories of music analysis and music perception. Given an analytic theory, the method consists of creating a generative process that implements the theory in reverse. Instead of using the theory to create analyses from scores, the theory is used to generate scores from analyses. Subjective evaluation of the quality of the musical output provides a mechanism for testing the theory in a contextually robust fashion. The method is exploratory, meaning that in addition to testing extant theories it provides a general mechanism for generating new theoretical insights. We outline our initial explorations in the use of generative processes for music research, and we discuss how generative processes provide evidence as to the veracity of theories about how music is experienced, with insights into how these theories may be improved and, concurrently, provide new techniques for music creation. We conclude that Generation in Context will help reveal new perspectives on our understanding of music.

Eco-structure data forms : classification of data analysis using perceived design affordances for musical outcomes

This paper explores a method of comparative analysis and classification of data through perceived design affordances. Included is discussion about the musical potential of data forms that are derived through eco-structural analysis of musical features inherent in audio recordings of natural sounds. A system of classification of these forms is proposed based on their structural contours. The classifications include four primitive types; steady, iterative, unstable and impulse. The classification extends previous taxonomies used to describe the gestural morphology of sound. The methods presented are used to provide compositional support for eco-structuralism.

Changing musical emotion : a computational rule system for modifying score and performance

When communicating emotion in music, composers and performers encode their expressive intentions through the control of basic musical features such as: pitch, loudness, timbre, mode, and articulation. The extent to which emotion can be controlled through the systematic manipulation of these features has not been fully examined. In this paper we present CMERS, a Computational Music Emotion Rule System for the control of perceived musical emotion that modifies features at the levels of score and performance in real-time. CMERS performance was evaluated in two rounds of perceptual testing. In experiment I, 20 participants continuously rated the perceived emotion of 15 music samples generated by CMERS. Three music works, each with five emotional variations were used (normal, happy, sad, angry, and tender). The intended emotion by CMERS was correctly identified 78% of the time, with significant shifts in valence and arousal also recorded, regardless of the works’ original emotion.

View from a bridge : what makes a musical city

The attention paid by the British music press in 1976 to the release of The Saints first single “I’m Stranded” was the trigger for a commercial and academic interest in the Brisbane music scene which still has significant energy. In 2007, Brisbane was identifed by Billboard Magazine as a “hot spot” of independent music. A place to watch. Someone turned a torch on this town, had a quick look, moved on. But this town has always had music in it. Some of it made by me. So, I’m taking this connection of mine, and working it into a contextual historical analysis of the creative lives of Brisbane musicians. I will be interviewing a number of Brisbane musicians. These interviews have begun, and will continue to be be conducted in 2011/2012. I will ask questions and pursue memories that will encompass family, teenage years, siblings, the suburbs, the city, venues, television and radio; but then widen to welcome the river, the hills and mountains, foes and friends, beliefs and death. The wider research will be a contextual historical analysis of the creative lives of Brisbane musicians. It will explore the changing nature of their work practices over time and will consider the notion, among other factors, of ‘place’ in both their creative practice and their creative output. It will also examine how the presence of the practitioners and their work is seen to contribute to the cultural life of the city and the creative lives of its citizens into the future. This paper offers an analysis of this last notion: how does this city see its music-makers? In addition to the interviews, over 300 Brisbane musicians were surveyed in September 2009 as part of a QUT-initiated recorded music event (BIGJAM). Their responses will inform the production of this paper.

Scaffolding children’s musical creativity : a case of a kindergarten teacher in Hong Kong

Drawn from a larger mixed methods study, this case study provides an account of aspects of the music education programme that occurred with one teacher and a kindergarten class of children aged three and four years. Contrary to transmission approaches that are often used in Hong Kong, the case depicts how musical creativity was encouraged by the teacher in response to children’s participation during the time for musical free play. It shows how the teacher scaffolded the attempts of George, a child aged 3.6 years to use musical notation. The findings are instructive for kindergarten teachers in Hong Kong and suggest ways in which teachers might begin to incorporate more creative approaches to musical education. They are also applicable to other kindergarten settings where transmission approaches tend to dominate and teachers want to encourage children’s musical creativity.

aa-cell in practice : an approach to musical live coding

Live coding performances provide a context with particular demands and limitations for music making. In this paper we discuss how as the live coding duo aa-cell we have responded to these challenges, and what this experience has revealed about the computational representation of music and approaches to interactive computer music performance. In particular we have identified several effective and efficient processes that underpin our practice including probability, linearity, periodicity, set theory, and recursion and describe how these are applied and combined to build sophisticated musical structures. In addition, we outline aspects of our performance practice that respond to the improvisational, collaborative and communicative requirements of musical live coding.

That's a rap : the making of an Australian hip hop integrated musical film

To date, the majority of films that utilise or feature hip hop music and culture, have either been in the realms of documentary, or in ‘show musicals’ (where the film musical’s device of characters’ bursting into song, is justified by the narrative of a pursuit of a career in the entertainment industry). Thus, most films that feature hip hop expression have in some way been tied to the subject of hip hop. A research interest and enthusiasm was developed for utilising hip hop expression in film in a new way, which would extend the narrative possibilities of hip hop film to wider topics and themes. The creation of the thesis film Out of My Cloud, and the writing of this accompanying exegesis, investigates a research concern of the potential for the use of hip hop expression in an ‘integrated musical’ film (where characters’ break into song without conceit or explanation). Context and rationale for Out of My Cloud (an Australian hip hop ‘integrated musical’ film) is provided in this writing. It is argued that hip hop is particularly suitable for use in a modern narrative film, and particularly in an ‘integrated musical’ film, due to its: current vibrancy and popularity, rap (vocal element of hip hop) music’s focus on lyrical message and meaning, and rap’s use as an everyday, non-performative method of communication. It is also argued that Australian hip hop deserves greater representation in film and literature due to: its current popularity, and its nature as a unique and distinct form of hip hop. To date, representation of Australian hip hop in film and television has almost solely been restricted to the documentary form. Out of My Cloud borrows from elements of social realist cinema such as: contrasts with mainstream cinema, an exploration/recognition of the relationship between environment and development of character, use of non-actors, location-shooting, a political intent of the filmmaker, displaying sympathy for an underclass, representation of underrepresented character types and topics, and a loose narrative structure that does not offer solid resolution. A case is made that it may be appropriate to marry elements of social realist film with hip hop expression due to common characteristics, such as: representation of marginalised or underrepresented groups and issues in society, political objectives of the artist/s, and sympathy for an underclass. In developing and producing Out of My Cloud, a specific method of working with, and filming actor improvisation was developed. This method was informed by improvisation and associated camera techniques of filmmakers such as Charlie Chaplin, Mike Leigh, Khoa Do, Dogme 95 filmmakers, and Lars von Trier (post-Dogme 95). A review of techniques used by these filmmakers is provided in this writing, as well as the impact it has made on my approach. The method utilised in Out of My Cloud was most influenced by Khoa Do’s technique of guiding actors to improvise fairly loosely, but with a predetermined endpoint in mind. A variation of this technique was developed for use in Out of My Cloud, which involved filming with two cameras to allow edits from multiple angles. Specific processes for creating Out of My Cloud are described and explained in this writing. Particular attention is given to the approaches regarding the story elements and the music elements. Various significant aspects of the process are referred to including the filming and recording of live musical performances, the recording of ‘freestyle’ performances (lyrics composed and performed spontaneously) and the creation of a scored musical scene involving a vocal performance without regular timing or rhythm. The documentation of processes in this writing serve to make the successful elements of this film transferable and replicable to other practitioners in the field, whilst flagging missteps to allow fellow practitioners to avoid similar missteps in future projects. While Out of My Cloud is not without its shortcomings as a short film work (for example in the areas of story and camerawork) it provides a significant contribution to the field as a working example of how hip hop may be utilised in an ‘integrated musical’ film, as well as being a rare example of a narrative film that features Australian hip hop. This film and the accompanying exegesis provide insights that contribute to an understanding of techniques, theories and knowledge in the field of filmmaking practice.