MODAVISA RESEARCH PROJECT
THE WHOLE PROJECT, AT A GLANCE

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10 notebooks
01 / Research

Virtual Acoustic Objects

An instrument is more than its shape. Bring its sound, structure and evidence together.

7 pages
02 / Research

Research & questions

How can digital representations keep musical heritage open to critical inquiry?

7 pages
03 / Research

Recording & fieldwork

From an instrument in a room to an attributable, reusable recording.

4 pages
04 / Resources

Navigator

An evidence-led workspace for exploring instruments, people, places and histories.

3 pages
05 / Resources

Pipe Organ Dataset

A versioned corpus of organological records, connected to their sources.

4 pages
06 / Resources

Tools & experiences

The tools, standards and research collections of MODAVIS, with their responsibilities and release status.

8 pages
07 / Foundations

Ontologies

A shared language for instruments, evidence, historical states and digital representations.

6 pages
08 / Foundations

Standards & citation

Stable identities, explicit versions and inspectable content.

5 pages
09 / Foundations

About the project

Musical instruments, digital scholarship and the possibilities of open research.

3 pages
10 / Foundations

Journal & milestones

A dated route through the project’s published standards, data and research.

2 pages
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NOTEBOOK 03

Recording & fieldwork

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OrgRec

A native macOS workbench for documented pipe-organ recording.

2 min read · September 2026
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OrgRec turns an instrument specification into a recording roadmap. It combines multichannel capture with session planning, live checks, review and research-package export. The published release described here is 0.3.0.

  • Multichannel 24-bit PCM Broadcast Wave recording through Core Audio.
  • Equipment, microphone geometry and session records.
  • Non-destructive analysis, segmentation and sustained-loop inspection.
  • Editable projects with checked VAO import and export.
OrgRec 0.3.0The recording application’s release record.

Sources & further reading

  1. OrgRec 0.3.0

    The recording application’s release record.

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