This website describes the background, the motivation and the creation of Tlamp! project. Tlamp! is an interactive music software that helps its user to learn and play an Indonesian musical instrument, Talempong. This study will also review past related works and how music software can be brought into the musical tradition’s realm.
Numerous literatures argues about how effective software games teach its players to learn a musical instrument. The premise is that a software can teach basic skills that are transferable to the real instrument. Based on that premise, Tlamp! was built to conduct a simple experiment. It would explore how far could Tlamp! help to introduce traditional music to a broader audience.
This is my second assignment that went open-source. It's a music software for Mac, currently still in pre-alpha release. Tlamp! is heavily inspired by rhythm-based games such as Rock Band, Guitar Hero, DDR, etc. But what's unique is instead of playing popular music instruments such as guitar or drums, Tlamp! lets you learn and play Talempong, a Sumatran percussion.
I even went to 2 Indonesian families in Leeds to test Tlamp! out, and they seemed pretty engaged with it. It was a fun experience for me, seeing their responses from the software that I build. Hope that they had fun as much as I do.
You can read my background through the link, or you can go straight to the code here.
