Mark Gotham
Suggestions from 2023 round - may be starting point for a more open-ended brief in future:
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1. Client: Mark Gotham (mrhg2), "Four Score and More" (https://fourscoreandmore.org) Title: "Playback time" Brief: "Playback time" will offer users the opportunity to play along with short, simple musical exercises on a MIDI keyboard or similar and receive automated feedback on their timing and accuracy. The resource centres on basic scale and melodies, along with musical fragments called "partimenti". The app thus resembles the format of home practice assistance apps, but will be free, open source, and centre on a set of musical materials that have been developed over hundreds of years to teach both playing and musical understanding simultaneously. The initial implementation for this app was completed some time ago, building on top of the music21j library (https://github.com/cuthbertLab/music21j) and including some dynamic programming for handling user input. This project will need to bring that initial implementation up to date and provide a more robust UI.
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2. Client: Mark Gotham (mrhg2) and Felipe Martins for "Four Score and More" (https://fourscoreandmore.org) Title: "TiLiA: Timeline Annotator" Brief: TiLiA (short for "Timeline Annotator") is a GUI-based tool for aiding in the creation and use of graphic annotations on audio and video files. It is primarily intended to aid musical analysis by showing aspects such as the structure (e.g., the verse-chorus structure of a song). Those graphics and annotations may be used to control playback and enable filtered searches over a corpus of annotation resources produced in this way. It is somewhat similar to the existing AudioTimeliner (http://www.singanewsong.org/audiotimeliner/), although already significantly more full-featured. The long-term goal is that it will serve as the first step in creating an online platform where many kinds of musical analyses can be easily shared and accessed. The current state is an initial, offline implementation (https://github.com/FelipeDefensor/TiLiA). The task for this project is to build a web version of this on the "Four Score and More" (https://fourscoreandmore.org) website. This may involve using elements of the offline version, but will more likely mean building from scratch, simply using that offline version for guidance.
