AudioSavant: Exploring Musical Structure Through Visual Interaction
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In music education, inexperienced students have great difficulty making a connection between the sounds they are hearing and the actions taken to produce those sounds. This is the primary hurdle that must be overcome before these students can move on to more advanced concepts such as music notation, creation, and composition. To this end, we introduce AudioSavant, a visualization tool that allows users to explore some of the hidden, complicated, or otherwise difficult to explain characteristics of a musical piece. Created in conjunction with Carnegie Hall’s “Music for Everyone” initiative, the tool provides valuable information about musical organization and structure without requiring prior musical knowledge. An initial user study revealed the AudioSavant interaction model to be both intuitive and engaging to inexperienced music students across a wide range of ages.
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