I would love to be part of a session where people trade stories of success and failure at collaboration. I’m thinking especially of collaboration between technology-skilled people and those focused on humanities teaching or research. I have been on both sides of this divide, sometime trying to get help from people with much more tech-savvy, but at other times trying to help people with tech who understand less. If you’ve been in either situation, what have you learned that others could learn from?

Music is a multidimensional experience. How can we encode this experience into the web?

I am interested in music visualization and the development of music related software for research and pedagogy. This began with the creation of the Cyclochromatophone, a personal project and non-notational teaching tool for music by combining elements of proportion and synesthesia. Since then I have begun two new projects in music visualization: a jazz teaching tool collaboration with a faculty member in the Harvard Department of Music, and an interactive website called quoModo that will teach the musical modes.

I propose this session in an effort to discuss, brainstorm, or even code with other music enthusiasts who are interested in music visualization and software, and to gauge interest in the creation of a local music visualization/software developers group. I encourage anyone to join in the discussion regardless of technical skill level, and if there is enough interest I will cater the session around the interests of the group.