The Future of the Music Animation Machine

The Future of the Music Animation Machine

And Other Music-Related Projects

What's next up for the M.A.M.? There are a lot of possibilities.

First, there're lots of features and variations to the M.A.M. itself:

Note shapes to reflect the envelope (continuous amplitude) of the sounds

Using real-time variations in the note (e.g. changes in intensity, size, shape, etc.) to reflect changes in pitch, volume, or timbre

Using a fisheye lens-type view to enhance the "now"

Multiple onscreen windows (e.g. to compare two performances, or parts of the same performance, etc.)

More robust feature-set for the M.A.M. editor: transpose, group operations, etc., etc., etc.

Incorporating the Voice Tracker into the M.A.M. display

Incorporating DYAD-like features into the M.A.M. display

A version of the M.A.M. for Windows

A version of the M.A.M. for Java

Second, there are several M.A.M.-related projects that don't necessarily involve changing the M.A.M. itself, but using the M.A.M. software (or just the idea) as part of other things:

Music Animation Machine CD, M.A.M. companion scores for good recordings

Gamelan M.A.M., a way to study gamelan performance practice and compositions

Third, there are some non-M.A.M. music- and music-visualization-related projects:

Oskarettes; the main unfinished project is to extract gestures from musical renditions and allow these to control the motion of fluid shapes, such as jellyfish.

Music Visualization Development System, perhaps based on a game machine