Music shaper

• US 10,235,983 B2
• Filed: 09/03/2017
• Issued: 03/19/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 01/09/2015
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Mark Strachan
• Original Assignee: Mark Strachan
• Inventors: Strachan, Mark
• Primary Examiner(s): Donels, Jeffrey
• Application Number:
  US15/694,819
• Publication Number:
  US 20170365243A1
• Time in Patent Office: 562 Days
• Field of Search: 84609, 84464 R, 84470 R, 84471 R, 84472
• CPC Class Codes: G10G 1/00 Means for the representation of music
• CPC Class Codes: G10G 1/02 Chord or note indicators, fixed or adjustable, for keyboard of fingerboards
• CPC Class Codes: G10H 1/0025 Automatic or semi-automatic music composition, e.g. producing random music, applying rules from music theory or modifying a musical piece automatically producing a series of tones G10H1/26
• CPC Class Codes: G10H 1/38 Chord
• CPC Class Codes: G10H 2210/071 for rhythm pattern analysis or rhythm style recognition rhythm pattern per se G10H2210/341
• CPC Class Codes: G10H 2210/105 Composing aid, e.g. for supporting creation, edition or modification of a piece of music
• CPC Class Codes: G10H 2210/125 Medley, i.e. linking parts of different musical pieces in one single piece, e.g. sound collage, DJ mix
• CPC Class Codes: G10H 2210/571 Chords; Chord sequences special keyboards for playing chords, e.g. accordion G10H2230/245, janko keyboard G10H2220/251
• CPC Class Codes: G10H 2220/106 using icons, e.g. selecting, moving or linking icons, on-screen symbols, screen regions or segments representing musical elements or parameters
• CPC Class Codes: G10H 2220/126 for graphical editing of individual notes, parts or phrases represented as variable length segments on a 2D or 3D representation, e.g. graphical edition of musical collage, remix files or pianoroll representations of MIDI-like files
• CPC Class Codes: G10H 2220/131 for abstract geometric visualisation of music, e.g. for interactive editing of musical parameters linked to abstract geometric figures
• CPC Class Codes: G10H 2240/125 Library distribution, i.e. distributing musical pieces from a central or master library

Abstract

A music composition, editing, and playback system and method provides a user interface design based on geometric interpretation of music theory replacing traditional modern music notation with geometric shapes including chords represented by polygons that are colored with colors or hues.

Claims

1. A music composition, editing, and playback system comprising:

a processor and one or more input/output devices including a display;

the processor for executing a computer readable code for music composition, editing, and playback;

musical notes and chords are visualized in one or more loti, each loti including an octave of notes; and

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each chord visualization derived from one or more of a group of seven base vector triads;

wherein a chord visualized with a first hue is, when inverted, visualized with a second hue different from the first hue.

2. The system of claim 1 wherein for at least one octave, plumes form a lotus including a central plume and plumes to either side of the central plume are arranged symmetrically by color.

3. The system of claim 1 further comprising:

each chord has a particular polygonal shape with a particular computer determined hue;

each chord differs from visualizations of other chords for at least one of a different shape or a different hue;

visualizations of musical rhythms created by aggregation of plural ones of the visualized notes and chords in a time circle;

a time circle circumference equal to a particular musical distance and a time marker for moving around the circle; and

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the aggregation of notes and chords visualized in the time circle in accordance with a user selected rate or scale of the time marker.

4. The system of claim 3 wherein the time circle circumference follows a circular path.

5. The system of claim 3 wherein the aggregation of notes and chords is enclosed within the time circle.

6. A method of representing a complete chord catalog, the method comprising the steps of:

constructing a parameterized curve encircling an axis multiple times;

representing “

n”

musical octaves with the curve;

positioning notes on the curve to form a 12 tone equal temperament tuning system for each octave;

taking 3 notes at a time, selecting the 7 largest triangles that interconnect 3 notes wherein (i) each newly selected triangle is neither of an inversion of or a rotationally symmetric copy of any one of the previously selected triangles and (ii) each of the selected triangles represents a musical chord; and

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from the 7 chords, selecting a set of chords such that (i) a four layer decision tree is formed, (ii) the set of chords includes every unique composite chord, and (iii) in three adjacent layers there are successive chords where the latter chord shares a vertex with the prior chord.

7. The method of claim 6 wherein each chord in the set of chords is one of the 7 chords or a composite (more than 3 notes) of 2 to 4 of the 7 chords.

8. A method of mixing multiple musical works into continuous playable streams, the method comprising the steps of:

providing digital data storage accessible to a network shared by a plurality of users; and

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in the data storage, constructing a directed graph having a set of nodes and a set of edges;

wherein

(i) each node contains a musical work and no two nodes contain the same musical work,

(ii) each user has access to a user specific group of plural nodes, each pair of nodes being interconnected by an edge, and

(iii) each edge identifies instructions used to mix the musical works contained by the two nodes the edge interconnects.

9. The method of claim 8 wherein the nodes consist of digital data.

10. The method of claim 9 wherein musical works are mixed irrespective of user access rights to create a mixed work different from the musical work found in any one node.