SBIR Phase I: Geometric System for Music Composition

这个SBIR项目对这个项目的更广泛的商业影响是对社会的好处，因为它将帮助更多的人以一种新的、有趣的方式学习和体验音乐。这个项目将以图形化的方式与公众分享高年级和研究生数学的概念。通过帮助人们完成音乐创作的学习曲线，它为新的经济互动打开了商业潜力--允许用户相互出售他们创造的内容。在过去的两年里，在线音乐应用的市场增长了10倍。例如，一个主要的音乐应用程序现在拥有2.5亿用户，而两年前只有1000万用户。这个项目提供了在这一领域竞争的机会。这个项目可以通过帮助互联网从广告商市场转变为更理想的内容制作者市场来影响社会，同时推动分布式计算的最新水平。这个SBIR项目解决了以下问题：要写音乐，学生必须学会理解音乐符号。乐谱基于一个有数百年历史的系统，该系统混淆了音乐中存在的数学结构，并使学习过程复杂化。这个项目使用三维视图和色彩系统来构建音乐的更高维度的空间表示，从而提高学生和/或作曲家的知识水平。这种表示法消除了混淆，并使用户界面能够直观地表达音乐，帮助学生更快地学习。的研究目标是完成用户界面设计以通过该工具实现艺术表现，识别软件体系结构功能以实现最佳系统性能，设计和划分域和数据模型以支持跨云和社交网络的用户对用户交易，并定义到外部系统的适当接口点以实现全部功能。研究将包括首席调查员的数学建模，以及一名高级调查员的用户界面图形设计。这些结果将在原型过程中改进并与系统现有的和新的接口相结合。研究结果应包括完整的系统规范和/或系统原型。

This SBIR project's broader and commercial impact of this project is a benefit to society, because it will help more people learn and experience music in a new and fun way. This project will share concepts from upper division and graduate mathematics graphically with the general public. By helping people through the learning curve for music writing, it opens up commercial potential for new economic interactions?allowing users to sell each other content they create. The marketplace for online music applications has grown by a factor of 10 in the last 2 years. As an example, one major music application now has 250 million users, up from 10 million users 2 years ago. This project provides an opportunity to compete in this space. This project can impact society by helping transform the internet from a market of advertisers to a more desirable market of content producers, and simultaneously advance the state of the art in distributed computing.This SBIR project addresses the following problem: to write music, students must learn to understand music notation. Music notation is based on a centuries old system which obfuscates the mathematical structures present in music, and complicates the learning process. This project advances the knowledge of the student and/or composer using 3 dimensional views and color systems to construct a higher dimensional spatial representation of music. This representation removes obfuscations, and enables user interfaces for intuitive musical expression, helping the student learn faster. The research objectives for are to complete the user interface design to enable artistic expression through the tool, to identify software architecture features for optimal system performance, to design and partition a domain and data model to enable user to user commerce across the cloud and social network, and to define appropriate interface points to external systems for full functionality. Research will consist of mathematical modeling by the principal investigator, combined with graphic design for user interfaces by a senior investigator. These results will refine and integrate with existing and new interfaces for the system, in a prototyping process. The results of the research should include a completed system specification and/or system prototype.