TheHarmonic Walk: An Interactive Physical Environment to Learn Tonal Melody Accompaniment
Marcella Mandanici, Antonio Rodà, Sergio Canazza · Advances in Multimedia · 2016
TheHarmonic Walkis an interactive physical environment designed for learning and practicing the accompaniment of a tonal melody. Employing a highly innovative multimedia system, the application offers to the user the possibility of getting in touch with some fundamental tonal music features in a very simple and readily available way. Notwithstanding tonal music is very common in our lives, unskilled people as well as music students and even professionals are scarcely conscious of what these features actually are. TheHarmonic Walk, through the body movement in space, can provide all these users a live experience of tonal melody structure, chords progressions, melody accompaniment, and improvisation. Enactive knowledge and embodied cognition allow the user to build an inner map of these musical features, which can be acted by moving on the active surface with a simple step. Thorough assessment tests with musicians and nonmusicians high school students could prove the high communicative power and efficiency of theHarmonic Walkapplication both in improving musical knowledge and in accomplishing complex musical tasks.