Computer Assisted Learning for Musical Awareness Information about an interactive computer aided learning project for musical awareness, which covers pitch and rhythm exercises, timbre and texture. Includes resources for aural training and music theory, composition, performance and sound processing, ethnomusicology, and notation. Available for Macintosh and PC users. It combines elements of computing, music, evolutionary theory, and fast 3D graphics to generate bizarre animated creations which dance to music from an audio CD, DJ deck, or live act. Dancer DNA will react to voice, live music, dance music, classical music, or any sound.
Documentation is available for the genetic description language to assist music analysis.
Contains tips, news, commentary and access to music industry and article databases. MP3 is becoming a standard method for compressing audio files for Internet retrieval. The Nuts and Bolts Article from Hotwired magazine which outlines the advantages of using MP3 format for playing and producing audio files, and how to use an MP3 player, ripper, and database. Includes a selective index to useful MP3 hardware and software resources. Music can be recorded, downloaded from the Internet, stored, sorted by artist, genre or song title, and played.