designing accessible music interfaces
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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