Visual, tactile and motion-sensation system for representing music for an audience

摘要

System of translation between written or performed music and visual, tactile and motion sensation experiences. Specific metaphors for most aspects of music among these non-audio media are described. Examples include rules for color assignment to pitches in a scale; positioning visual representations of notes; visualizing notes between pitches; arranging tactile stimuli to represent pitches; and rendering stages of cadence with motion sensing experiences such as movement within space, or changes in one's tilt, pitch, etc. The system includes documentation of theoretical/interpretive elements such as key signature, current chord, association of notes with melody, as they occur in a piece, along with metaphors for their translation in these non-audible media. The metaphors are strictly prescribed, yet accommodating large variations and freedoms in visual, tactile and motion renderings by producers/artists, allowing for visual, tactile or motor metaphors for non-musical instrument sounds such as finger sliding across windings of a guitar string.

主权项

1. A system of translation for a range of recognizable elements of written and performed music, comprising at least one of notes, harmony, cadence, phrasing, theme, lyrics, dynamics, percussions, instrument quality and voice quality music to representational visual structures using in at least two axes, and at least one of representational patterns of tactile stimulation and representational patterns of physical stimulation creating a sense of motion.