AMIGO: An Assistive Musical Instrument to Engage, Create and Learn Music

Isabela Corintha Almeida, Giordano Cabral, and Professor Gilberto Bernardes Almeida

Proceedings of the International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression

Abstract:

We present AMIGO, a real-time computer music system that assists novice users in the composition process through guided musical improvisation. The system consists of 1) a computational analysis-generation algorithm, which not only formalizes musical principles from examples, but also guides the user in selecting note sequences; 2) a MIDI keyboard controller with an integrated LED stripe, which provides visual feedback to the user; and 3) a real-time music notation, which displays the generated output. Ultimately, AMIGO allows the intuitive creation of new musical structures and the acquisition of Western music formalisms, such as musical notation.

Citation:

Isabela Corintha Almeida, Giordano Cabral, and Professor Gilberto Bernardes Almeida. 2019. AMIGO: An Assistive Musical Instrument to Engage, Create and Learn Music. Proceedings of the International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression. DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.3672910

BibTeX Entry:

  @inproceedings{Almeida2019,
 abstract = {We present AMIGO, a real-time computer music system that assists novice users in the composition process through guided musical improvisation. The system consists of 1) a computational analysis-generation algorithm, which not only formalizes musical principles from examples, but also guides the user in selecting note sequences; 2) a MIDI keyboard controller with an integrated LED stripe, which provides visual feedback to the user; and 3) a real-time music notation, which displays the generated output. Ultimately, AMIGO allows the intuitive creation of new musical structures and the acquisition of Western music formalisms, such as musical notation.},
 address = {Porto Alegre, Brazil},
 author = {Isabela Corintha Almeida and Giordano Cabral and Professor Gilberto Bernardes Almeida},
 booktitle = {Proceedings of the International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression},
 doi = {10.5281/zenodo.3672910},
 editor = {Marcelo Queiroz and Anna Xambó Sedó},
 issn = {2220-4806},
 month = {June},
 pages = {168--169},
 publisher = {UFRGS},
 title = {{AMIGO}: An Assistive Musical Instrument to Engage, Create and Learn Music},
 url = {http://www.nime.org/proceedings/2019/nime2019_paper033.pdf},
 year = {2019}
}