Design and implementation of an interactive real time music coach

Abstract

This paper reports the implementation of a transducer that converts sound waves into digital audio waves. This device can allow a user to visualize digitally the sound that they are emitting from a certain wind instrument as they play a certain melody. For this report, bamboo pipes were utilized. Permitting the user to visualize digitally their wind based music, will aid designers and developers of music couches, because it opens a door for a new range of music couches focused on wind based instruments. It will allow for wind based instruments to participate in a new type of musical interaction that had before not yet been reached. The system is also capable of reproducing in an eolic form any digital music signal that is given to it. Recordings from nature were made and digitalized and feed to the system, the system was capable of reproducing the sound of waves, and thus also permitting for another novice musical interaction.