Project description
Access to and preservation of cultural and scientific resources
CONTRAPUNCTUS has designed and developed an online library enabling visually impaired musicians to benefit fully from digital Braille music scores.
Music has always been considered a crucial opportunity for education of the blind, as well as for their social integration and employment. There are, though, a numbers of barriers inhibiting those with a visual impairment to develop their potential in this domain.
Besides the fact that visually impaired musicians have to dedicate much time and efforts to memorising the score, since it is generally impossible for them to read and play at the same time, they also face problems regarding access to scores. Among those are difficulties in bidirectional written communication about Braille music (Braille scores are far less coherent with traditional notation than texts with Braille transcriptions), the high cost of production and distribution of Braille scores, and national variations in music transcription that create confusion for users and discourage interchange between libraries.
CONTRAPUNCTUS has tackled these barriers by developing:
- a standardised Braille music XML description in order to convert digital scores that currently exist in many different formats. This is to ensure compatibility of files and to enable libraries and users to share music scores.
- an integrated software package, called 'Resonare', capable of reading and interpreting Braille music scores, to enhance bidirectional communication between blind and sighted persons.
- an interactive Braille music XML reader for accessing digitised music by using vocal, sound and tactile information that supports the user in reading and manipulating scores according to their personal specific needs (beginner, blind music teacher, amateur, etc.).
Finally, CONTRAPUNCTUS has created an online portal as access point to a Braille score library, compiling files from the most important European libraries for the blind.
The project's work can contribute to reducing time and cost of production and distribution of Braille music scores. Another potential of CONTRAPUNCTUS is to increase the number of users by facilitating access to scores and to encourage music literacy in general.
more articulate representation;- promoting new interactive experiences for non-sighted users useful for study, learning, creative experiences. The results of the project will be the Manager and Analyser Kit for Braille Music (MAKBM) prototype and the realization of demonstrative portal for a on-line library based on BrailleMusicXML new code.ObjectivesThe development of an interactive music system for non-sighted people, using the rich and varied digital music heritage existing in Braille, in order to:offer them a wider accessibility and ensure availability for the future;provide interactivity and new creative possibilities; produce instruments able to recognize such digital ASCII formats, to interpret, contextualize and conceptualize them in the structured format. preserve and make homogeneous the Braille music heritage existing in different digital formats . Description of workStart a research that aims at designing an accessible and interactive music storage system, to offer non-sighted user the chance to read an interpreted music structure at different levels thanks to different information such sound and tactile.Develop a ¿compiler¿ that permits to contextualize and organize, into defined structures, music Braille existing in different formats in national libraries. Producing tools that enable non-sighted people to explore the score structure at various levels; interact with the music by receiving selected informations thanks to defined commands such as knowing parts, voices, phrasing, etc.Achieving a common format for music data storage in Braille format based on new XML technologies taking advantage of institutes and standardization bodies (e.g. Mpeg7, CEN, IEEE.)milestoneThe final objectives of this project are:- encouraging the renewal of traditional Braille music libraries to convert their collections, from a simple Braille digital text into an interactive code able to save the original version and to allow a much more articulate representation;- promoting new interactive experiences for non-sighted users useful for study, learning, creative experiences. The results of the project will be the Manager and Analyser Kit for Braille Music (MAKBM) prototype and the realization of demonstrative portal for a on-line library based on BrailleMusicXML new code.
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FP6-2005-IST-5
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20052 Monza
Italy
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