Organia Sound - development of a new format for reconfigurable digital music

• Grant number: 07/01634-2
• Support Opportunities: Research Grants - Innovative Research in Small Business - PIPE
• Start date: July 01, 2008
• End date: April 30, 2009
• Field of knowledge: Engineering - Electrical Engineering - Electrical, Magnetic and Electronic Circuits
• Principal Investigator: Regis Rossi Alves Faria
• Grantee: Regis Rossi Alves Faria
• Company: Organia Engenharia e Tecnologias Audiovisuais Ltda
• Associated researchers: Felipe dos Santos Pegoraro ; Luiz Gustavo Brinholi Peigo ; Paula Fabiana Scarpato

Abstract

The current market of digital music is strongly based on the consumption of fixed media, previously mastered and finished, as the CD and MP3. Object oriented technologies turn obsolete this paradigm allowing the segmentation of the programme in elementary components, and individual access to each instrument or sound track, leading to a reformulation of the concept of phonogram production and consumption. We identify some technologies and new reference architectures for multichannel audio and sound immersion production, distribution and reproduction systems that combine capacity of interaction and content personalization during the reproduction. Their usage however presents important challenges to establish success cases. This research project considers a strategical information survey of the phonographic market, the universe of the content producers and an alignment of technologies for the proposal of a new paradigm for reconfigurable digital music. We foresee the research on implantation models for successful businesses in the sector and the experimental development of three necessary technological components for a show-case demonstrating the feasibility of our solution: a new format for reconfigurable digital music, an encoder (authorship software) to generate phonograms in this format, and a decoder (player) for personalized reproduction of the musical content. (AU)