Designing a Musical Instrument: Enlivening Theory Through Practice-Based Research

Abstract

IntroductionThe Arcontinuo is an electronic musical instrument that was conceived with the intention of overcoming the difficulties of other instruments that have failed in getting a consistent place in the musical scene. Its creation was based on a model founded in concepts of interaction design research and narrative identity that we intend to describe in detail in the first part of this article. This model, we hope, could be applied to any design research process providing an approach to creating products, services and experiences with a quality rooted in the personal and collective organization of meaning. The second part of the article explains the implementation of the model as a case study, the Arcontinuo.

Design and Implementation of An Intelligent Classroom Teaching System for Music Class Based on Internet of Things

“…The gateway module is the root node of the acquisition sub-system network, it manages every acquisition sub-module under the communication network [28]. The mining of teaching information needs to borrow the help of the reasoning system [29,30]. The reasoning decision in classroom teaching design means that teachers who are responsible for the courses formulate their teaching methods according to their own teaching strategies based on various information collected by the system, including the student information, teaching information, and system information, etc.…”