Meta-instrument and Natural User Interface: a New Paradigm in Music Education

Mario Malcangi () and Andrea Luca Ludovico ()
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Mario Malcangi: Universita' degli Studi di Milano - Department of Computer Science
Andrea Luca Ludovico: Universita' degli Studi di Milano - Department of Computer Science

No 802638, Proceedings of International Academic Conferences from International Institute of Social and Economic Sciences

Abstract: Music is gaining a growing role in children and teenager education, but playing music is not as natural as listening, requiring a large amount of time to spend in learning how to play a music instrument. Since a number of technical skills should be acquired through practice, this is a strong limitation for educational contexts where student?s time is a limited resource. The meta-instrument is a new paradigm for music instruments that overcomes these limitations and enables the student to instantly execute a music score without a specific training. Thanks to the natural ability of the human beings to tap the music, the meta-instrument moves the interaction level to the timing, the interpretation, and the natural interaction, embedding the pitch control in its smart logic implementation. The typical interaction of a natural user interface is applicable to a meta-instrument because it can emulate both a traditional music instrument and a virtual one. The student can play a music instrument regardless to the interaction mode, thus focusing on interpretation rather than on playing. The proposed meta-instrument framework refers to multiple and heterogeneous contents applying the specification of IEEE 1599, an XML-based standard for full representation of music.

Keywords: Meta-instrument; intuitive learning; natural user interface; music interpretation; music play; Muscic-XML; IEEE1599. (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 8 pages
Date: 2014-10
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Published in Proceedings of the Proceedings of the 13th International Academic Conference, Antibes, Oct 2014, pages 303-310

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