Rhythm-based musical game for generative group composition
US9646587B1 · kind B1 · utility
Assignee
Inventors
Key dates
| Filing date | Mar 9, 2016 |
| Grant date | May 9, 2017 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Mar 9, 2036 |
Classification
- Technology area (CPC G)Physics
- CPC primaryG10H2240/325
- WIPO fieldOther consumer goods
- WIPO sectorOther fields
Abstract
A musical game system and associated methods configured to allow for unguided, free-form group-based musical expressivity during generation of a collaborative digital music track (or “song”). The musical game system is designed to provide a hardware and software pipeline that functions to record, quantize, and loop multiple (e.g., 1 to 15 or more) users' inputs (e.g., via a piezoelectric MIDI (Musical Instrument Digital Interface) controllers or triggered instruments or other user input devices) in a dynamic playback space. The musical game system further functions to provide volume attenuation and localization of playback to enable participants to express themselves with their user inputs with complete agency while simultaneously adding to an overarching, collaborative musical composition generated using their user inputs and other participants' user inputs. The collaborative musical composition is created by the system so as to maintain coherence and tonality regardless of the user inputs the system receives and processes.
Source: USPTO / EPO open patent data. Objective bibliographic and citation counts.