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Seminar
Musical Moments
Speaker
David Bainbridge
Institute
University of Waikato
Time & Place
2pm, Mon., 1 July., in 031, Erskine Building
All are welcome
Abstract
In this talk I will present the development and evaluation of a personal
digital library environment designed to help musicians capture, enrich
and store their ideas using a spatial hypermedia paradigm. The target
user group is musicians who primarily use audio and text for composition
and arrangement, rather than with formal music notation. Using the
principle of user-centered design, the software implementation was
guided by a diary study which suggested five requirements for the
software to support: capturing, overdubbing, developing, storing, and
organising. In the developed software environment the underlying spatial
data-model is exploited to give raw audio compositions a hierarchical
structure, and—to aid musicians in retrieving previous ideas—a search
facility is available that supports both query by humming and text-based
queries. A user evaluation of the completed design indicated that
musicians, in general, would find the hypermedia environment useful for
capturing and managing their moments of musical creativity and
exploration. More specifically they would make use of the query by
humming facility and the hierarchical track organization, but further
work is needed on the overdubbing facility to improve its usefulness.
Teaser: What do the Bee Gees, Deep Purple and Felix Mendelssohn have in
common? (Answer to be provided at the seminar.)
Biography
David Bainbridge is an Associate Professor in Computer Science at the
University of Waikato. An Alumni of Canterbury, he studied the problem
of optical music recognition at the university as a Commonwealth
Scholar. Since moving to Waikato, he has continued to broaden his
interest in the representation and organisation of multimedia
information, and leads the digital library research group. A key output
from this research is Greenstone, an open source multilingual digital
library toolkit, used by UN agencies and others around the globe (its
interface has been translated into over 50 languages). With his
colleagues Ian Witten and Dave Nichols, he is author of the book, How to
Build a Digital Library, now in its 2nd edition.
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