All Entries Tagged With: "instruments"
Misa guitar – the future just round the corner?
Some months ago I had a conversation with a friend that went something like this: “Wouldn’t it be great if someone would design an instrument that used a touch screen interface to extend the resources that trained musicians already find in traditional instruments”. In other words, using technology to extend and transform our opportunities rather [...]
How good are your sounds?
A while ago I came across this video and stored it away as I thought it would come in useful at some point. At the time I thought it was pretty neat but not much more… I revisited this by chance the other day after running a seminar on using new technologies for music teaching [...]
W3 for Music Educators #4
Wells Cathedral School music offer two excellent resources here. The virtual Javanese Gamelan and Virtual African drumming. Both are free to download and use. WCS also provide teaching resources in the form of teaching manuals, pupil question sheets, composition logs and links to the UK National Curriculum (see http://www.imusic.org.uk/resources.asp). I like that this resource is [...]
Tactile touch screen
I was having a conversation with a friend the other day and we were discussing what an interface for music would look like that approached hci design from the perspective that a musical instrument takes many years to learn. We talked around many of the issues that may get in the way but particularly noted [...]
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