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MUSIC: Technology News Intro
WILL: First there was guitar hero, an interactive guitar that let you rock hours of your day away.
Next there was Rockband, an interactive guitar, drum, and microphone that allowed you lead an entire interactive band.
Now thanks to TCNJ professors Teresa Naukra and Chris Ault, you can party like it’s 1455 with the new Virtual Maestro Conducting Kiosk.
According to the creators, the game allows you to interactively control of a full orchestra with a Nintendo Wii remote.
The Wii remote allows users to control the entire orchestra just as a real conductor would.
You can conduct the orchestra to play faster or slower, and louder and softer all in order have the orchestra play a masterpiece together.
Dr. Naukra originally designed an earlier version of this game for the Boston Children’s Museum to give children a real life look into what it is like to conduct an orchestra.
Naukra was soon contacted by sponsors who wanted to turn this platform into a more user-friendly version for the general public.
That is where Chris Ault and the Nintendo Wii remote came into play. Ault is an assistant professor of interactive media at TCNJ and his job was to connect the game with the Nintendo Wii platform.
Together they created nothing short of a masterpiece.
Ault and Naukra are hoping to integrate more technology like this into TCNJ’s music department.
The Kiosk is not currently for sale although there are two copies making their way around the United States and Europe over the next year.
You experience this interactive masterpiece hands on at Philadelphia’s Kimmel Center until April 15.
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