MODAVISA RESEARCH PROJECT
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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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Tools & experiences

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Different ways of encountering an object

Spatial, acoustic and analytical views make different aspects of the same object available.

2 min read · September 2026
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Explore in context

A geographic interface places an instrument in a landscape of places and relationships. A three-dimensional view instead offers a spatial representation of the object itself. Neither perspective replaces the source record.

Listen and interact

A playable representation can relate actions to sound, while an auralization can explore the role of a room or listening position. Each depends on a particular dataset and model, and needs to declare those dependencies.

Keep capability explicit

VAO profiles allow a package to declare the experiences and resources it actually supports. A viewer should respect those declarations rather than implying that every object provides playback, augmented reality or a complete simulation.

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Sources & further reading

  1. About the doctoral research

    Musikinstrumente im virtuellen Raum, submitted 11 September 2026.

  2. VAO Standard 0.5.0

    The versioned specification and reference tools.

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