Yes, of course there's a prototype (the image above is taken from it). You can also see a few videos by following the links below. They reflect some of the main features implemented so far.
Though the core functionality is established and working well, with nothing stopping it's being copied, the prototype can't yet be placed online. For that to happen, it needs to pass the first really significant milestone, funding of a minimum viable product (MVP). This will establish the framework upon which a treasury of exchangeable world music instrument models and theory tools can be developed, integrated and made public.
Getting this initial funding is the goal of the crowd funding initiative.
Big, brave, open-source, non-profit, community-provisioned, cross-cultural and ranting crazy. → Like, share, back-link, pin, tweet and mail. Hashtags? For the crowdfunding: #VisualFutureOfMusic. For the future live platform: #WorldMusicInstrumentsAndTheory. Or simply register as a potential crowdfunder..
Most technical approaches to managing complexity are based on decomposition. Ours focusses on SYNTHESIS from multiple data trees, allowing the generation of a vast range of musical instruments and tools. The core concept is simple, eliminating many purely "complexity management" dependencies. This in turn makes the framework blisteringly fast. More technical stuff waaaay below.
For all it's visual sophistication, scalar vector graphics code is compact and economic in execution. Of the three potential bottlenecks (initial display, transformations during playback, and running changes by the user), none have been found to have significant impact.
The vision of a global world music aggregator platform has been shown feasible. Though many of the trickier problems have been solved, bringing it to full production in a non-profit, open-source format will be challenging. This is best tackled by a small band of adventurers - nimble, fast and focussed - with wide community support. Join the Fellowship. Celebrate the Past. Forge the Future.
Keywords
online music learning,
online music lessons
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distance music learning,
distance music lessons
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remote music lessons,
remote music learning
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p2p music lessons,
p2p music learning
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music visualisation
music visualization
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musical instrument models
interactive music instrument models
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music theory tools
musical theory
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p2p music interworking
p2p musical interworking
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comparative musicology
ethnomusicology
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world music
international music |
folk music
traditional music
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P2P musical interworking,
Peer-to-peer musical interworking
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WebGL, Web3D,
WebVR, WebAR
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Virtual Reality,
Augmented or Mixed Reality
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Artificial Intelligence,
Machine Learning
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Scalar Vector Graphics,
SVG
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3D Cascading Style Sheets,
CSS3D
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X3Dom,
XML3D
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Comments, questions and (especially) critique welcome.