Publicado em: 14/12/2009

Defesa de Tese de Doutorado em Sistemas de Computação, dia 17/12, de Evandro Manara Miletto

UNIVERSIDADE FEDERAL DO RIO GRANDE DO SUL
INSTITUTO DE INFORMÁTICA
PROGRAMA DE PÓS-GRADUAÇÃO EM COMPUTAÇÃO

DEFESA DE TESE DE DOUTORADO

Aluno: Evandro Manara Miletto
Orientador: Prof. Dr. Marcelo Soares Pimenta

Título: CODES: an Interactive Novice-oriented Web-based Environment for Cooperative Musical Prototyping
Área de Pesquisa: Sistemas de Computação

Data: 17/12/2009
Hora: 9h
Local: Sala dos Conselhos (Sala 220)

Banca Examinadora:
Prof. Dr. Geber Lisboa Ramalho (UFPE)
Prof. Dr. Regis Rossi Alves Faria (USP)
Profa. Dra. Carla Maria Dal Sasso Freitas (UFRGS)

Presidente da Banca: Prof. Dr. Marcelo Soares Pimenta

Resumo: Music creation is considered as mostly a solitary activity performed by musicians. Since music has traditionally served as a natural motivation for community formation, new modalities have been created by means of use of technology, and one potential convergency of social activities and music making is the ?eld of Networked Music. It allows people to explore the implications of interconnecting their computers, and share musical experience as a social activity through music. This thesis assumes that a networked music environment – if speci?cally designed for that – can stimulate social ways of music creation, even by novices in music – people assumed to have no previous knowledge of music.

The goal of this thesis is twofold: a) to investigate how networked music technology can provide adequate support for music creation, to discuss how it is possible to overcome a set of natural barriers, and to define requirements specifically oriented to users novices in music; and

b) as the main result and testbed of this research, to introduce CODES (Cooperative Music Prototypes Design ) – a Web-based novice-oriented environment designed to support cooperative music creation. The prototypical nature of CODES is designed and built in order to provide a novice-oriented perspective, as a novice may experiment with music by combining, listening and rearranging pre-de?ned sound patterns to create simple musical pieces – called Music Prototypes.

Furthermore, CODES users may cooperate with partners in a cyclical and collaborative process of music prototypes creation – called Cooperative Music Prototyping, using customized awareness, argumentation, and negotiation mechanisms until a ?nal consensual music prototype stage is reached.

Throughout this volume, the main concepts, principles, requirements and characteristics of CODES are presented, and the details of design, implementation of CODES and its evaluation by actual users are described.

Keywords: Cooperative music prototyping, networked music, interfaces for novices.