Understand the project
Use the Cuntz organ to understand the objects, evidence and standards behind the project.
The research notebooks.
Read from the beginning, or open at the question
that brought you here.
A PLACE TO BEGIN
What brings you here?
Three suggested routes. Every chapter also stands on its own.
Work with recordings
Plan a documented recording, interpret its analysis and find the relevant processing tools.
Build with VAOs
Explore the object structure, follow exact assets across carriers and validate the result.
Research
Ideas, questions and methods01
Virtual Acoustic Objects
An instrument is more than its shape. Bring its sound, structure and evidence together.
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Research & questions
How can digital representations keep musical heritage open to critical inquiry?
03
Recording & fieldwork
From an instrument in a room to an attributable, reusable recording.
Resources
Tools, data and experiences04
MODAVIS Navigator
An evidence-led workspace for exploring instruments, people, places and histories.
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Pipe Organ Dataset
A versioned corpus of organological records, connected to their sources.
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Tools & experiences
The tools, standards and research collections of MODAVIS, with their responsibilities and release status.
Foundations
The agreements beneath the work07
Ontologies & vocabularies
A shared language for instruments, evidence, historical states and digital representations.
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Standards & citation
Stable identities, explicit versions and inspectable content.
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About MODAVIS
Musical instruments, digital scholarship and the possibilities of open research.
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Project journal
A dated route through the project’s published standards, data and research.