{"title":"Experiencing Online Orchestra - Communities, Connections and Music-Making through Telematic Performance","authors":"Michael Rofe, E. Geelhoed, Laura Hodsdon","doi":"10.1386/jmte.10.2-3.257_1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1386/jmte.10.2-3.257_1","url":null,"abstract":"Telematic performance offers significant potential for musicians in remote communities to perform together, increasing access to the type of ensemble music-making that is commonplace in urban areas. This article presents a range of perspectives taken from interviews with participants in the Online Orchestra pilot performance. Participants highlight the significant potential of telematic performance to overcome the challenge of music-making in geographically remote communities. The feasibility of making music in latency-rich environments is corroborated, as is the importance of the conductor in telematic performance. Suggestions are given for the fine tuning of peripheral equipment, and a preference emerges for the more traditional and simple music commissioned by the project.","PeriodicalId":42410,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Music Technology & Education","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2017-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1386/jmte.10.2-3.257_1","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47242403","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Designing a System for Online Orchestra - Computer Hardware and Software","authors":"David Prior, F. Reuben, Ian Biscoe, Michael Rofe","doi":"10.1386/jmte.10.2-3.185_1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1386/jmte.10.2-3.185_1","url":null,"abstract":"Online Orchestra sought in its pilot performance to enable musicians in four remote locations in Cornwall, United Kingdom, to make music together over the Internet. This article considers the processes by which computer hardware and software platforms were selected, integrated and optimized for the performance. Starting with an overview of guiding design principles, details of the computer hardware and software platforms used are provided. Audio- and video-streaming solutions are surveyed, leading to a detailed analysis of JackTrip and its deployment in the final system. The network environment in which the Online Orchestra performance took place is also considered, including specifications of each of the four venues.","PeriodicalId":42410,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Music Technology & Education","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2017-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41534881","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Designing a System for Online Orchestra - Microphone Evaluation and Cost-Benefit Analysis","authors":"E. Geelhoed, David Prior, Michael Rofe","doi":"10.1386/JMTE.10.2-3.213_1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1386/JMTE.10.2-3.213_1","url":null,"abstract":"Online Orchestra is a telematic performance project that aimed to enable young and amateur musicians to make music online. Part of the aim of the project was to assess the extent to which specialist equipment is needed in order to enable a high-quality musical experience in a telematic environment. This article reports a microphone evaluation study in which untrained participants were asked to assess ten characteristics of quality in five samples, each recorded using different microphone configurations. Results show that participants rated DPA VO4099 clip-on microphones best, but that a stereo pair of Sure SM57s – which are over ten times cheaper – was rated a close second. Multidimensional scaling also shows that SM57s had the highest similarity to all other microphone configurations, suggesting they are a good alternative to costlier solutions.","PeriodicalId":42410,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Music Technology & Education","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2017-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48277015","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Online Orchestra: Connecting remote communities through music","authors":"Michael Rofe, Samuel Murray, Will Parker","doi":"10.1386/JMTE.10.2-3.147_1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1386/JMTE.10.2-3.147_1","url":null,"abstract":"Online Orchestra is a telematic performance project, aimed at enabling young and amateur musicians in geographically remote locations to make music together over the Internet. This article describes the contexts out of which the project emerged, including an overview of the benefits of ensemble performance, and a survey of precedent telematic performance projects. It goes on to describe how the starting premises of Online Orchestra respond to these contexts and ends with a summary of Online Orchestra’s approach, and its key findings. The article describes in particular how many recent telematic performance projects rely on specialist networks and equipment, and that alternative design solutions are necessary, and possible, in order to reach young and amateur musicians in their own remote locations.","PeriodicalId":42410,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Music Technology & Education","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2017-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42266100","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Composing for a Latency-Rich Environment","authors":"Michael Rofe, E. Geelhoed","doi":"10.1386/JMTE.10.2-3.231_1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1386/JMTE.10.2-3.231_1","url":null,"abstract":"Three new works were commissioned for the pilot performance of Online Orchestra: In Sea-Cold Lyonesse by John Pickard, Spiritus Telecommunitas by Federico Reuben and Re-Tracing by Jim Aitchison. This article brings together post-project interviews with composers and detailed analyses of the final compositions in order to document how composers approached the challenge of writing music for a latency-rich environment. Solutions include the use of distributed textures, polyrhythm and ostinati, blurred transitions, slow rates of harmonic change, layered textures and semi-improvised rhythmic notation. This leads to consideration of the medium of Online Orchestra – a telematic performance environment for distributed young and amateur musicians to make music together – and the conclusion that latency-rich environments hold significant potential for composers.","PeriodicalId":42410,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Music Technology & Education","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2017-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48269522","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Music technology, education and maps: The use of geospatial technology and data to inform music education research","authors":"R. Purves","doi":"10.1386/JMTE.10.1.117_1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1386/JMTE.10.1.117_1","url":null,"abstract":"Recent developments in geographical information systems and geospatial statistics, together with greater access to large, fine-resolution ‘geocoded’ data sets, are transforming environmental, social and economic research. Over the past decade, there has been a small, but growing application of these techniques within the fields of music making, music education and music research. This article begins by offering a brief overview of some of the developments as a whole. It goes on to offer a detailed treatment of a series of geospatial statistical techniques which, it is hoped, may be applicable within a wide range of music and music education research fields. These techniques are illustrated through references to a deviant idiographic case study dealing with instrumental tuition provided by one English local government area (local authority) between 2003 and 2010. The case study draws on analyses of detailed anonymized participant records (n = 6063) using, amongst other techniques, location quotients, tests for spatial autocorrelation and distinct distributions and ‘global’ and ‘local’ regression models. The article will demonstrate how these techniques can be applied using open-source software and freely available census, government and cartographic data.","PeriodicalId":42410,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Music Technology & Education","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2017-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1386/JMTE.10.1.117_1","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43413564","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
F. Cuadrado, Isabel López-Cobo, B. Valverde, David Varona
{"title":"Musicalizatech: A collaborative music production project for secondary and high-school students","authors":"F. Cuadrado, Isabel López-Cobo, B. Valverde, David Varona","doi":"10.1386/JMTE.10.1.93_1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1386/JMTE.10.1.93_1","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":42410,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Music Technology & Education","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2017-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48637155","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Maria Helena de Lima, Damián Keller, Luciano Vargas Flores, Edemilson Ferreira
{"title":"Ubiquitous music research: Everyday musical phenomena and their multidisciplinary implications for creativity and education","authors":"Maria Helena de Lima, Damián Keller, Luciano Vargas Flores, Edemilson Ferreira","doi":"10.1386/jmte.10.1.73_1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1386/jmte.10.1.73_1","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":42410,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Music Technology & Education","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2017-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46530255","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Technical exercise practice: Can piano students be motivated through gamification?","authors":"Heather J. S. Birch, Earl Woodruff","doi":"10.1386/JMTE.10.1.31_1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1386/JMTE.10.1.31_1","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":42410,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Music Technology & Education","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2017-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1386/JMTE.10.1.31_1","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45354832","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Assessing the suitability of Kinect for measuring the impact of a week-long Feldenkrais method workshop on pianists’ posture and movement","authors":"Jillian Beacon, G. Comeau, P. Payeur, D. Russell","doi":"10.1386/JMTE.10.1.51_1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1386/JMTE.10.1.51_1","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":42410,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Music Technology & Education","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2017-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1386/JMTE.10.1.51_1","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48327700","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}