The Deschamps Database allows the user to search through 9 volumes of poetry and prose by medieval French poet Eustache Deschamp, as well as 2 volumes of commentary. The application is intended to allow scholars who may not be technically inclined to find data. The design of the application removes the need for the user to know complex syntax such as Structured Query Language (SQL) to search the database. Instead, users may add simple search terms to find whatever information they need. The application is a single user, graphical application. The application resides on a single machine, which takes information from the user, queries the database, and returns the results to the user. The application is designed to be as easy to use as possible. The nature of the application places emphasis on the data contained in the database, and getting the data to the user.
Advisor: Prof. Deborah M. Sinnreich-Levi
Deborah.Sinnreich-Levi@stevens.edu
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PROJECT OBJECTIVE:
This proposal is to analyze the data input from different disciplines, and then express that data through and audio emulation to see if specific disciplines generate unique musical structures to that discipline. It could be recreated through emulation of the actual digital audio, or through conversion to a hexadecimal output, which could be communicated through MIDI, and have other samples attributed to the controller information.
EXPLANATION OF CONCEPT:
More and more information is being accumulated and logged in a digital format. Regardless of the discipline, data is acquired through research, original composition and cumulative analysis. As this data is inputted into the computer, it is converted into binary code and represented as a digital word, a sequence of bits and bytes.
If one were to analyze the data of a specific discipline, for example readings from a physics experiment, there would possibly be a general format of that data. Similarly, if one was to analyze the digital data that an architect inputs into a CAD program, there might be revealed certain patterns because of the type of information. Another example could be found in the literary arts. Perhaps the formulation of poetry or philosophy represented by the digital avatar in code would elicit certain binary patterns.
In the current musical environment, music and technology use digital data to represent audio (sampling of voltages to capture sound digitally) and controller data (keyboard input) through MIDI-Musical Instrument Digital Interface.
CURRENT STATUS OF WORK:
Different specific data sets have been analyzed, such as planetary motion, and emulated through musical representation. There has never been a study done that looks at different disciplines to study associated patterns within each discipline.
ANTICIPATED PROJECT DELIVERY:
The final output of the musical representations will be delivered on commercial CD format and the associated digital information will be documented as a report and in poster form.
POTENTIAL COMMERCIAL VALUE:
The potential marketable usage of this research could be applied to Pattern Recognition Software and/or different Encryption Protocols in Cryptography.
ADVISOR - Robert Harari
rharari@stevens.edu
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