A wireless, networked musical environment consisting of wearable MIDI instruments

Author

Maekawa, Tadao ; Nishimoto, Kazushi ; Mase, Kenji ; Tadenuma, Makoto

Author_Institution

ATR Media Inf. Sci. Labs., Kyoto, Japan

Volume

2

fYear

2003

fDate

23 Feb.-1 March 2003

Firstpage

1731

Abstract

Contributions of electronic media technology to learning or education have become more necessary. Recently, it has been shown how multimedia technology could be utilized effectively for education of the artistic fields such as music. In this paper, we describe a CosTune-prototype as a first step towards developing a system with which musical pieces can be created and played anywhere, at anytime and with anybody. However, CosTune-prototype needed a supporting server, and so a user could not go to town wearing it and play a song. Therefore, in this study, a truly wearable system based on the CosTune-prototype is developed. A wireless, networked musical environment consisting of CosTune-v2 is also developed. It is expected that the developed system would be useful for daily life filled by music and learning music.

Keywords

educational aids; electronic music; mobile radio; multimedia communication; musical instruments; CosTune-prototype; CosTune-v2 system; costume plus tune; education; electronic media technology; learning; multimedia technology; networked musical environment; wearable MIDI instruments; wireless musical environment; Audio systems; Cities and towns; Computer applications; Education; Educational technology; Information science; Instruments; Multimedia systems; Network servers; Prototypes;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Telecommunications, 2003. ICT 2003. 10th International Conference on

Print_ISBN

0-7803-7661-7

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICTEL.2003.1191693

Filename

1191693