An immersive system for editing and playing music on network-connected computers

A prototype system for immersive music editing and playing has been developed. The system enables one to edit musical notes and control playing in an immersive virtual environment using multimodal interfaces. The immersive virtual reality is suitable as a natural interface for many people. One can manipulate musical notes by hand, learn to read a musical score and understand the relationship between the score and sounds. The prototype system was implemented with the Java programming language, the Java3D class library, the JavaSound class library and an original library called “it3d”. It works on a personal computer or a group of computers connected with a fast local area network where one computer executes the application body and others process input/output. The system is portable and expected to work on a wide range of hardware platforms