designing accessible music interfaces

Ethan HeinNYU Steinhardtmusedlab.org@ethanhein

Designing accessible music interfaces

The NYU Steinhardt Music Experience Design Lab researches, designs and develops new technologies and experiences for music making, learning, and engagement together with community and industry partners

Eight ways of looking at son clave

An inaccessible music interface

The time-unit box system

Hip-hop transcriptionsby Charlie Hely: standard rhythm notation as a time-unit box system

The Roland TR-808is a time-unit box system

The MIDI piano roll is a time-unit box system

Godfried Toussaint's rhythm necklaces

The Rhythm Necklace app

The Kitāb al-Adwār (13th century) by Safi al-Din al-Urmawi

musedlab.org/groovepizza

Visualizing syncopation

Visualizing rhythmic contour

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Son clave Fume-fume

Bembé and the major scale: maximally even spacing of an odd number of elements

GarageBand - musical typing

musedlab.org/aqwertyon

Propellerhead Figure

Thumbjam

Ableton Push

QWERTYBeats

Thanks for listeningEthan HeinNYU Steinhardtmusedlab.org@ethanhein