CALMUS Mentor is a game-changer in the training and development of composing professionals.
With it's large database of sounds and musical objects for both traditional and digital instruments CALMUS Mentor can be used for educational and research purposes within higher music education institutes.
There are several ways the software can be used in an educational setting:
For teaching composition:
Mentor is a workstation for professors, teachers, and students for training, experimental, development, and research purposes. It includes tools for composing basic traditional musical segments with various complexity, texture, structure, atmosphere, and character and can be used for teaching theory, exploring the different compositional methods ranging from old polyphonic styles like canon to the more recent “pointilistic” styles in polyphonic writings.
For professional composing:
CALMUS includes various tools to modify and transfer individual musical objects using both traditional and contemporary composition tools and methods. See CALMUS Composer for more information.
As input to a cross disciplinary/department workshop/project:
CALMUS can be used to create music in real time and comes with a remote app which can be used to manipulate the composition process in real time. It is ideal to be used in experimenting the boundaries of music and performance and can be incorporated in interactive exhibitions to deepen the experience of the artistic team as well as the audience.
Benefits
Synchronise it with other music softwares
Use both traditional and contemporary composition tools and methods in a new way
Playback with digital instruments
Export score (MF) into traditional notation
A new approach in teaching musical composition using the latest technology
Experiment with musical materials according to different styles and diversity
Real time composing and performance
Real time manipulation of the composition
Research composition using new technology and artificial intelligent
Shorter study time
Less time needed to compose, edit, and record music
CALMUS used in a compositional thesis or research
Research topics:
Research in melody construction with cell creation, cell complexity, melodic development, scales, forbidden intervals, etc.
Algorithmic evaluation of harmony according to colour, tension, harmonic (overtone) relations, and harmony progression of a composition.
Using artificial intelligence to control development and metamorphose in melodic construction.
Using algorithmic functions to control harmonic progression.
Chord relations according to frequency relations of harmonics (overtones) of simultaneously sounding tones.
Real time composition process with CALMUS for traditional and electronic instruments.
Thesis topics:
Musical Cells: construction or complexity.
Melody: values, development, and metamorphose.
Harmony: tension, colour, polyphony, development, relations (dissonant/consonant).
Construction of musical objects, forms, and hierarchy.
Real time composition and graphical notation.
New Research Project for Distant Learning in Composition
CalmusMentor is a novel, experiential distance learning tool for the teaching of creative musical practices. It is multiplatform, cloud-based, providing a modern, alternative teaching platform, based on both traditional and modern compositional methods.
CalmusMentor presents an innovative approach where Distance Learning and Artificial Intelligence come together, allowing for real-time interaction, where geographical distances are no longer a hindrance and students can tailor their studies to their own individual preferences.
CalmusMentor It is a flexible study tool tailored to the needs of each student, thus saving both effort and time, a strong response to the world´s current situation, a global connection leading to increased cultural diversity.
The core of CalmusMentor will be based on the previous combined research and collaboration of highly experienced specialists in the fields of AI technology, computer software design, musical composition and networking specialists, developed together with students and faculty of the Iceland University of the Arts, Sbelius Academy in Finland, the University of Iceland, Reykjavík University, and various other Higher Education institutions worldwide.
CalmusMentor will transform composition teaching in a number of ways. The unique characteristic of the software is the use of Artificial Intelligence which allows for real-time analysis of students’ creative input. The AI brain provides instant feedback based on the students’ musical ideas along with suggestions for further development.
These outputs are linked to quality learning material from numerous established online sources which the student can then study further.
Having completed the seven projected study cycles, the students´ learning outcome is the ability to create/compose scored and orchestrated music for solo instruments, chamber music ensembles, small and large scale orchestras, electronic music, music for film and games etc. etc.
The estimated time for the development of CalmusMentor is two years. At the end of year one, we will deliver version 1.0 of CalmusMentor, ready for testing and evaluation of both technical aspects as well as pedagogical outputs.
CalmusComposer (CalmusBrain) has been used for music education and composition at all school levels
and has been used in over 20 Higher Education institutions around the world (lectures, workshops, seminars and one-on-one teaching).
