Context

This app is supposed to be developed nowadays, with current technological tools. This is an app you can download on mobile phone and digital tablet for free. This app is designed to be used during museums visits, in contemporary paintings and sculptures museums mainly. The goal is to make the visit more collaborative and to sharp artistic sense. Indeed this is so sad to see so many people interested in art visiting a beautiful museum each one on their own. They will much more enjoy the moment if they are able to share and learn from their different feelings on the masterpieces. Utilisable de nos jours. Le lieu est imposé par le sujet, ce web service est donc dédié aux musées, ainsi qu'à l'audience ciblée, qui se trouve dans notre cas être les musiciens.

So the app is aiming to improve the current way to visit a museum because it is a too solitary pattern for the moment. The goal is to have artists get closer together during their visit. And this is also about challenging their artistic sense with a mixed-arts approach. Le but de ce web service est de créer un espace artistique collaboratif qui permettrait aux musiciens de s'inspirer en regardant les oeuvres et en y associant des musiques, mais aussi en consultant les oeuvres musicales déjà associées à l'oeuvre qui ont été postées par des musiciens ayant déjà visité le musée.

Target

This app is designed for the musicians in particular. They are a suitable customer category. First of all they have an interest in arts in general so they may be prone to visit museum, more than some other social classes. Secondly they are familiar with the collaborative et network approach. Indeed they may play music in groups but also in their job it is very important to be recommended and to have some contacts to get what you need (to be choose for the animation of a special event, to make the first part of a concert, to be granted the autorization to book a recording studio or a concert hall...). Finally musicians as artists have often a good material to listen to the music, so they can use it to completely explore the app offers. Ce web service est dédié aux musiciens car ils ont tendance à être intéressés par les arts de façon transversale donc une application qui allie peinture et musique est faite pour eux. Les musiciens sont des passionnés ainsi ce service leur permet d'avoir à la fois une expérience musicale et d'explorer le musée.

Service offered

It offers musicians the opportunity during their museum visit to associate a museum work with a music. When they come facing a masterpiece they take a picture of it which is automatically identified by the app. Then the app will suggest 5 different pieces and will play each of them. The user can so chose, through a MCQ, what play is the most relevant one, the more linked to the masterpiece. Then the result are made public for all the app users, as a kind a survey result, and users can discuss the results. Indeed they will have access to a dedicated tchat in order to exchange and to explain their choices. This could help them to find inspiration using profesionals' feedbacks on their different feelings on the visual and musical combination. Le service offert est un service collaboratif.

Il offre la possibilité aux gens lors de leur visite d'un musée d'associer une musique à une oeuvre du musée, mais aussi trouver de l'inspiration en explorant les musiques déjà associées à chaque ouevre et en votant pour la plus pertinente.
Il fonctionnerait un peu de la meme maniere qu'une video youtube, ici on aurait l'oeuvre comme video, et les musiques seraient de simple commentaires de l'oeuvre que l'on pourrait up et downvote.

Identity

Web interface

The project is related to web because it explores the collaborative aspect, the idea of network, a strong caracteristic of the web. The tchat reminds social networks using. The idea to share and to explain his opinions works also in the same way.
Les cas d'utilisations sont, comme cité plus haut dans "service offered", le partage ou la recherche d'inspiration en associant une musique à une oeuvre du musée.

The user will access the service in different situations :

He is in a museum and wants to have a funnier visit, more suitable to his experience of musician. So he takes his mobile phone, log in, and starts with "What music with this masterpiece" directly on the museum.

He is with some friends and he wants to show some combinations of an work of art and a piece of music to discuss it with them directly. So he takes his mobile phone, log in and access "The community choices".

He is at home and feels the need to collect inspiration in the works of art or musics he saw in the app. So he takes his mobile, or tablet at home to have a better view on the work of art, log in and access "The community choices".

He is anywhere and he wants to share with musicians friends he met on the app. So he takes his mobile, log in, and clicks on "Tchat with other users"

Then the path on the interface is the following :

The user comes on the front page and he has to suscribe. He choses a username and provides some basic information (name,age, city, the instrument he plays)

The user arrives on the main page. There is the menu and the feed of other users activities. In the menu he can chose : "What music with this masterpiece" // "The community choices" // "Personnal pages" // "Tchat with other users"

If he choses "What music with this masterpiece", the camera is automatically opened and he has to take a picture of an art piece. Then the app recognizes the picture and propose a set of 5 pieces of musics. The user only has to click on each to have them played. Then he clicks on the button "VOTE" and he has to click on the music he thinks the most relevant for the art work. Otherwise he can also add his own music because he thinks this is precisely the music suitable to the piece of art he has just seen. Then he will automatically access the survey and see the music most chosen by the other users. He can access the list of users who have voted for each music in order to join them by tchat clicking on "Tchat with" when he reach their personal pages. He can also choose to share the survey and his own choice in it on his personnal page

If he choses "The community choices" he will have access to all the survey he has already taken part in. He can remember his choices, or share former surveys on his personnal page.

If he choses "Personnal pages" he will access a page with his picture and his username where he can share surveys of the app, personal articles or moods, pictures of masterpieces, screen of a debate with a friend in the tchat, himself trying to play the music he heard in the app, ect ect...Above this page there is a "resarch bar" to search and access others users personnal pages.

If he choses "Tchat with other users" he will access a platform where he can send messages to users, individually or in group. In this tchat they can also share musics, pictures.. The initial goal is to debate on their choices in the survey but they may also become friends and talk about their hobbies in general.

If he choses the littl button "Parameters" he will be able to adjust some technical points on the app.

When the user is accessing his personal page, he is using the web. When he is accessing the tchat with the app's community, he is using the web. The fact to take a picture and to vote is done in the app on a internal pattern but the strenght of the app is to allow the users to share their ideas and feelings thanks to a typical network pattern permitted by a web access.

Benchmark

• Kompoz : Kompoz Music Collaboration "Kompoz allows musicians from all around the world to collaborate online to create new original music". However this web service isn't related to museums visits. It is about the collaborative creation but actually it doesn't explore the link between visual and musical art.
• La sonographie muséale est déjà a l'oeuvre dans de nombreux musées (musées d'Orsay, du Quai-Branly, du Louvre...) La sonographie au musée mais elle n'implique pas l'aspect collaboratif entre les visiteurs. Elle reste placée au second plan derrière les oeuvres visuelles et ne fait pas l'objet de moments de discussion dédiés.
• Deezer ou Spotify : On peut déjà sur ces plateformes partager nos morceaux favoris à nos "followers" à travers une playlist rendue publique. Mais il n'y a pas de lien avec la visite d'un musée ni l'art visuel. De plus la plateforme est plutôt dédiée à une cible "tout public" qu'au segment spécifique des musiciens.

References

• The whole Kandinsky work, he thought music and painting are deeply linked : "The idea of music appears everywhere in Kandinsky's paintings. He believed shades resonated with each other to produce visual 'chords' and had an influence on the soul."
• Book : "Lorsque j'étais une œuvre d'art" by Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt. The character of Carlos Hannibal is a painter while he is blind. That illustrates the idea we can understand painting in a differant way than visual way.
• Scientific works on the synesthesia : the ability to hear the colors : to know more about it