00:00 Vj
projections
Exts
Arts institute
DVJ
in action
Exts
Bath Spa
The
Music Key on screen
Guide commentary: A combination of music
and cutting-edge technology lies at the heart of two research
projects in the South West. At the Arts Institute at Bournemouth
students have been testing and producing content for a prototype
audio-visual product called the DVJ-X1. Developed by Pioneer the
product combines video mixing with traditional DJ-ing to produce a
full audio-visual performance all controlled from the same
decks.
And at Bath Spa University College they have developed a
multimedia educational package that will revolutionise the teaching
of music and music technology in schools. The Music Key is the work
of Bath Spa’s Cendia (the Centre for Digital and Interactive
audio) in a joint venture with Sound Technology plc and it is
designed both for teachers and pupils of all ages
00:48 SOT: Joe Moretti Creative Projects Manager,
Cendia, Bath Spa University College - “The Music
Key is a multimedia resource that teaches the National Vurriculum
for music from junior right the way through to a-level. It utilises
a multimedia interface which takes text files and video files to
teach traditional music and music technology in the present day
context.”
01:05 On
screen close ups
Cus
screen
Ws
Cendia workers
CU
screen
Curriculum
info screen
Music
seq on screen
Guide Commentary: Running Apple’s logic
software in the background, The Music Key interface shows the user
what to do, explains every concept and provides sample song files
which are loaded into the apple software. There a pupil can play,
edit or recompose them with different instruments. The multimedia
interface utilises text files and movie files to show students how
to use Apple Logic software in the classroom.
It can also be used by teachers, as a toolkit to conduct music
classes, with all the information and topics that need to be
covered in a National Curriculum year contained within the
software. It is designed to teach both traditional music, and
leading edge music technology. It covers singing, composition,
arranging, and music theory, all the elements of the music
curriculum, yet it does so through a music technology
platform…
01:55 SOT:Joe Moretti - “The grounds
between the two are certainly becoming quite confused these days.
When we’re talking a music curriculum with theory and
traditional concepts, they’re taught on screen with movie
files and text files and that crosses over into music technology
where the projects, the actual composition projects that
you’re doing you drop into Apple logic software which runs in
the background at the same time so the distinction between the two
is certainly becoming blurred but both areas are covered through
the one interface.”
02:27 WS
Cendia workers
On
screen music key
Music
Key screen
Vjing
Projection screen
Cus
DVJ-X1
Manipulating
DVJ
Charles
and student
Guide Commentary: So far Cendia have created
two packages AS Music Technology and National Diploma Music
Technology. They are now working on a junior package, and in all
there will be 12 covering every year of the National Curriculum.
Soon the music key will be unlocking the musical talents of
students of all ages across the UK.
At first glance It might seem closer to clubbing than the
classroom, but what the students at The Arts institute at
Bournemouth are collaborating on, represents the leading edge
fusion of art and technology. The DVJ-X1’s technology allows
the manipulation of video stored on DVD in the same way and at the
same time as audio. It works like a CD mixer, replicating the way
vinyl was traditionally used for mixing. It allows scratching and
looping, but because it can absorb 3 gigabytes of ram buffer, it
allows the manipulation of high quality images as well as music.
The result is a tool that introduces a whole new era of
audio-visual performance.
The students first collaborated with Dr Charles Kriel, Senior
lecturer at the Arts Institute and professional VJ by producing
video content for a live telecast for the BBC from Glastonbury. Now
as well as learning how to VJ themselves and helping to test the
prototype, they are producing a “How to VJ” DVD to
accompany the product when it is released commercially.
03:48 SOT Dr Charles Kriel, Senior Lecturer, Arts
Institute at Bournemouth - "There’s a lot
of feedback that comes from the students because everybody that
touches the machine sees it in a different way and everyone that
touches the machine works on it in a different way. So all that
information comes back to me, I end up with a more complex
understanding of how the machine works and then I go off and work
with Pioneer and the engineers who are deciding the next versions
of these machines and suddenly this gets fed back into the product
development which is fantastic for everybody
concerned."
04:15 Student
using DVJ
DVJ
Projections
Guide Commentary: The project teaches both the
art of audio-visual performance, and the discipline of working with
industry. Above all the students are getting hands on experience
with cutting edge technology, which will open up new areas of art
and performance through the simultaneous manipulation of video and
audio.
04:32 SOT Charles Kriel - “It really
is the birth of a whole new media and the birth of a whole new
aesthetic and I think the permutations will be
infinite.”
04:40 Ends
