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Music to text in a live band enviornment. Is it possible?

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Hey everybody!

 

I really like the idea of musicians being able to communicate through music during a live play environment using arpeggiated chords assigned to characters. Perhaps translated to a graphical display? That would bring a whole new level to a Jazz performance. Or translating music directly into written poetry as a street performance for instance.

 

Perhaps you could use a spectrum analyzer shield for arduino such as this one to isolate the frequencies?

https://www.sparkfun.com/products/10306

in addition lets say you were trying to pick out a specific instrument as well,  could you use it in combination with a type of voice activation shield to detect the unique quality of say a Tuba -vs- a Piano? Here is a link to such a device at fairly low cost which could be utilized.

https://www.sparkfun.com/products/12656

 

i imagine using the two and some creative programming  to detect the peak of the set freq on the spectrum analyzer and audio waveform recognition. In assigning those messages to a specific task or alert you might be able to achieve what you are looking for. would this be similar to how Shazam works in a room full of people talking or a busy restaurant?

 

Would anyone have any insight as to how to make this work in an arduino or Razz π enviornment?

 

Please keep me posted if you come up with a working prototype!

 

Cheers,

 

William

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    You can get a smart phone app that recognizes songs from a snippet of music, so it is possible, although those apps are not set up to trigger much beyond displaying information about the song and artist. It would be interesting to see a phone participating as a karaoke voice....it could add the vocals back into muzak image.

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    Totally Douglas!

     

    Instead of displaying song information per snippet, the device would use individual notes or clusters attached to letter or words. Imagine losing your voice and being able to speak through a piano to a person who could not hear. The more I think of it, a new form of shorthand might have to be developed per instrument in order to properly communicate. This would be based on the limited octave range of certain instruments. But lets concentrate on a piano or saxophone. They have very broad ranges and tones.

     

    I wonder what a previously written book would sound like? The possibilities are endless! Now if only we could do it!