Overview
Topic status: We're looking for students to study this topic.
Digital audio input can be processed (using techniques called Fast Fourier Transformation) to determine which musical notes are being played on a musical instrument. The system can determine the exact frequency, duration and sound quality of the notes played. This can be used to provide graphical feedback to students learning to play an instrument in terms of which notes they have or haven't played well with respect to a particular piece of music. Effectively it converts sounds into visual representation. Could be used for violin, but also for most other instruments. No, experience with music, digital audio or FFs is required for this project - just good programming skills.
Hypothesis: That automated analysis can be used to provide useful feedback to beginner musicians
Approaches: The approach will be to implement FFT or other similar algorithms to perform spectrograph analysis. Is will then be used to with a number of pieces of sample music to determine whether it can be used to provide sufficient information to produce useful feedback.
References:
- Study level
- Honours
- Supervisors
- QUT
- Organisational unit
Science and Engineering Faculty
- Research area
- Contact
- Please contact the supervisor.
Dr Wayne Kelly
