Interactive Interpretation is a possibility to manipulate the performing of various style and arrangement music pieces (from classical piano pieces to jazz orchestra composition) without any special controllers in real time.
The method of interactive control is based on the natural finger movements and musical intuition, it doesn't require any special musical education and is easy to use by not only a professional musician, but also an ordinary musical fan.
This gives you an opportunity to play music in a non-complicated way, totally controlling the character of all musical parts of the piece (not only a single part, but also in various combinations). Interactive Interpretation lets you bring intuitive emotional elements (tempo, articulation, phrasing, dynamic and rhythm changes) into the performance on the fly and can be used both for creation of music pieces as audio or MIDI tracks, and for live concert performance.
Music performing is a creative process, and of course no computer model, even the most perfect one, can substitute a professional musician. However, a computer program could substitute or reduce a whole lot of non-creative routine elements, which have been an integral part of traditional music performing, such as technical skills, developed in years and dealing with physical sound producing on a musical instrument. Even if you have the most perfect musical ear, even if you are the greatest musical fan, you will not be able to play Liszt's Rhapsody until you acquire your perfect technical piano skills (and it will take years and years of daily practicing).
The Interactive Interpretation program gives a unique opportunity to unify a human and a computer in a creative process of music performing.
In the program we developed principles of interactive performing of a musical piece given as an electronic score, in an easy way, using only musical intuition. The interactive control method doesn't require any special controllers or skills, however it gives a human an opportunity to easily manipulate some complex musical parts. The manipulation method is so easy (key tapping) that it doesn't require any professional musical knowledge and can be learned even by a kid (we had many chances to prove it after series of experiments with children and people who had no musical experience).This method gives you a possibility to create an interpretation of complex musical compositions 'on the fly' and achieve surprising results.
Those of you, who work with sequencer music recording, know how difficult it is to manually change both played in real time and step recorded musical parts, and making such radical changes in real time, which we show in our examples, has not even been considered with sequencers.
Listen to 3 interpretation versions of the Night Train leading saxes part, made just in 5 minutes:
Example 1, Example 2, Example 3.
Video Samples
ATTENTION. For successful viewing of the video samples you have to install Windows Media Player 6 or later and DivX 4.12 codec or later.
Look
by yourself how easily you can perform complex arrangements with the help of
our Interactive Interpretation software:
Rhapsody
#2
(F.Liszt)
Maple Leaf
(S.Joplin)
Prelude c-moll
(I.S.Bach, arr. V.Borilov)
Fuga c-moll
(I.S.Bach, arr. V.Borilov)
Night Train
(J.Forrest)
Four
(M.Davis, arr. V.Borilov)
I May be Wrong
(J.Chapin)
All
the tunes presented were performed live with the help of Interactive
Interpretation software.
MIDI files, used in jazz tunes (Night Train, I May be Wrong, Four, Bach Fugue)
have been created with the help of JIMM
software.
Korg 01/W has been used as both a MIDI keyboard and a sound module.
The program cooperating with a human (controlled by him) in real time can be used in many areas of activities concerning music: in musical education, in recording studios, in computer games, in musical entertainment, in movie industry, etc.
Along with such traditional areas this program can create some unusual aspects of computer use for musical creativity, such as:
- creation of a new way of playing music (interactive performing of instrumental music, easy to make by any human, who has no professional skills),
- creation of new effective testing methods and development of musical abilities in educational process,
- creation of a new kind of compact musical information storage and transmitting (score apart from its performance data),
- remote ensemble music performing through communication facilities of the Internet,
The work on the project has been continued for 7 years by our members who tried their hardest for this unique idea realization.
As we think further work in this direction can radically change the very principles of musical software application and lead to developing absolutely new kinds of electronic musical instruments.
To continue our researches in this area and to reach the commercial stage of our project we need a serious business partner, who is able to value the perspective of the results of the researches and who can invest finances in it.
Contact information
E-mail: info@keyguitar.com
