Hey David,
I thought it might be a good idea to give you three of my ideas and maybe you could tell me if you think they are too small, or big or just give me your general thoughts on each.
I remember you saying that most people that have contacted you about their prototypes didn't really have a reason for their ideas. Because of this i've come up with 3 ideas that might actually be beneficial to the user.
1: Composing Gloves
The idea behind these gloves, would be to enable anybody, of any age regardless of their musical ability, to compose to some level of skill.
It would need to trigger a individual signal/bang when the tip of any finger touches any surface. Each finger would relate to either a chord or a note in the particular scale selected. Please see the attached image for a visual representation of what I'm trying to say.
This would ideally be a MIDI effect that would be able to be rewired to midi channel in a DAW to trigger any selected instrument.
As it would be impossible to escape the selected key, the whole compositional process would be less dependant on your skill using a particular instrument. Obviously there would be several limitations using the gloves, but the idea of escaping the generic instrumental interfaces and minimising the users room for error would mean anybody would be able to create simple melodies over a basic chord structure regardless of their musical ability.
I didn't get into music when I was younger because I never felt that I could get what I wanted out of the instruments I was playing. Perhaps if that hurdle was taken away, it could inspire younger people to get into music.
2: Lyric Writing Through Music
This idea might be a little 'out there' but, I'm dreadful at writing lyrics. So I wondered if 1 verse could be related to 16 bars for example, then what if the notes played in those 16 bars, produced the lyrics to accompany that verse.
I'm not entirely sure how this would work but, I imagine you'd need lists of words/phrases that would be triggered when particular notes, chords, or groups of notes are played? However then theres the problem of the words making sense. So perhaps it may require taking sentence structure into account.. so separating verbs, nouns, adjectives etc and having the output always order them in a way that will always make sense.
I don't know, that ones a little off the wall, but I thought it linked in with the idea of chance and the i-Ching, as well as the cut up technique for writing lyrics.
3: Xbox Controller
This one is quite a basic idea I suppose. It would be to hook up an xbox controller to max and use it either like a drum machine, or to trigger effects. The idea of using a familiar interface for something completely different than what we usually use it for.
Just your initial thoughts on the above would be great.. maybe how i could develop any of those ideas etc.
Thanks a lot,
Tristan Armes
12th Nov
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