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US 2017/0365243 A1Published application
Music shaper
OwnerMark Strachaninventor
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Abstract
A music composition, editing, and playback system and method provides a user interface design based on geometric interpretation of music theory replacing traditional modern music notation with geometric shapes including chords represented by polygons that are colored with colors or hues.
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A music composition, editing, and playback system comprising:
- a processor and one or more input/output devices including a display;
- the processor for executing a computer readable code for music composition, editing, and playback;
- musical notes and chords are visualized in one or more loti, each loti including an octave of notes;
- and,
- each chord visualization derived from one or more of a group of seven base vector triads.
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A method of representing a complete chord catalog, the method comprising the steps of:
- constructing a parameterized curve encircling an axis multiple times;
- representing “n” musical octaves with the curve such that for any integral number of octaves the curve origin and end lie in a plane with the axis;
- positioning notes on the curve to form a 12 tone equal temperament tuning system for each octave;
- taking 3 notes at a time, selecting the 7 largest triangles that interconnect 3 notes wherein (i) each newly selected triangle is neither of an inversion of or a rotationally symmetric copy of any one of the previously selected triangles and (ii) each of the selected triangles represents a musical chord;
- and,
- from the 7 chords, selecting a set of chords such that (i) a four layer decision tree is formed, (ii) the set of chords includes every unique composite chord, and (iii) in three adjacent layers there are successive chords where the latter chord shares a vertex with the prior chord.
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A method of mixing multiple musical works into continuous playable streams, the method comprising the steps of:
- providing digital data storage accessible to a network shared by a plurality of users;
- and,
- in the data storage, constructing a directed graph having a set of nodes and a set of edges;
- wherein
- (i) each node contains a musical work and no two nodes contain the same musical work,
- (ii) each user has access to a user specific group of plural nodes, each pair of nodes being interconnected by an edge, and
- (iii) each edge identifies instructions used to mix the musical works contained by the two nodes the edge interconnects.
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