Periodic Reporting for period 1 - CAMUT (Culture Aware Music Technologies)
Reporting period: 2015-11-01 to 2017-04-30
The concrete goal of CAMUT was to exploit some technologies developed within the CompMusic project, developing specific prototype products tailored to suit the cultural/social/economic context of India, then formulating a business plan around them.
The main outcomes of CAMUT are two software applications. Saraga, which is a mobile app for Android that allows to navigate and listen to a collection of Hindustani and Carnatic songs, and Riyaz, which is also an Android app, but this one specific to learn music.
Sarāga provides an enriched listening atmosphere over a collection of Carnatic and Hindustani music. It allows Indian art music connoisseurs and casual listeners to navigate, discover and listen to these music traditions using familiar, relevant and culturally grounded concepts. Sarāga includes inclusive designing of innovative visualizations and inter and intra-song navigation patterns that present musically rich information to the user on a limited screen estate such as mobiles. These time synchronized visualizations of musically relevant facets such as melodic patterns, samas locations and sections, provide a user with better understanding and appreciation of these music traditions. It is freely available in the play store: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.musicmuni.saraga&hl=en(opens in new window)
Riyaz offers hundreds of singing and lessons and vocal exercises for perfecting pitch and singing in tune. It is a personal vocal trainer that takes the user singing proficiency to the next level, faster! Riyaz listens to a user's singing voice with the love of a friend and the critique of a teacher and provides precise and instant feedback to correct the user's mistakes during practice. It is available from https://riyazapp.com(opens in new window). At this time, after two months of being public, there have been 100000 downloads of the app.
Out of the CAMUT project the spin-off company MusicMuni has been created in order to commercialize Riyaz.
The main outcomes of CAMUT are two software applications. Saraga, which is a mobile app for Android that allows to navigate and listen to a collection of Hindustani and Carnatic songs, and Riyaz, which is also an Android app, but this one specific to learn music.
Sarāga provides an enriched listening atmosphere over a collection of Carnatic and Hindustani music. It allows Indian art music connoisseurs and casual listeners to navigate, discover and listen to these music traditions using familiar, relevant and culturally grounded concepts. Sarāga includes inclusive designing of innovative visualizations and inter and intra-song navigation patterns that present musically rich information to the user on a limited screen estate such as mobiles. These time synchronized visualizations of musically relevant facets such as melodic patterns, samas locations and sections, provide a user with better understanding and appreciation of these music traditions. It is freely available in the play store: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.musicmuni.saraga&hl=en(opens in new window)
Riyaz offers hundreds of singing and lessons and vocal exercises for perfecting pitch and singing in tune. It is a personal vocal trainer that takes the user singing proficiency to the next level, faster! Riyaz listens to a user's singing voice with the love of a friend and the critique of a teacher and provides precise and instant feedback to correct the user's mistakes during practice. It is available from https://riyazapp.com(opens in new window). At this time, after two months of being public, there have been 100000 downloads of the app.
Out of the CAMUT project the spin-off company MusicMuni has been created in order to commercialize Riyaz.