Interactive Multimedia Interface for a Museum Exhibit of Renaissance Musical Instruments

This is an award-winning project made using Adobe XD featuring a collection of 30 musical instruments of the Renaissance era in an interactive multimedia interface.

Award

This project won the Best Project (Public Choice) Award under the "Design of Interactive Multimedia" Projects category at the Festival of Animation - Spring 2020 at The George Washington University, Washington D.C., USA.

Sister Project

This project has a sister project which is an immersive Virtual Reality (VR) Experience of the same museum, developed using AWS Sumerian, Adobe Photoshop, and Rhinoceros 3D. Learn more: https://github.com/ivedants/Virtual-Reality-Museum-of-Renaissance-Musical-Instruments

Table of Contents

• Getting Started
• Introduction
• References

Getting Started

There are two ways to access this project. One is to simply access it through a web browser (Google Chrome, recommended for best performance) via the following link: https://xd.adobe.com/view/b86818ed-5ac2-486d-6dea-8ade71f27df4-ce59/?fullscreen&hints=off.

The other way is to download the Adobe XD file in this repository and run it on your local machine.

NOTE: In order to access all the audio features of this project, you will be required to log in to your Adobe Account. Feel free to reach out to ivedantshrivastava@gmail.com for any doubts or suggestions regarding this project.

Introduction

In today's age, almost all the museums around the world make use of some kind of interactive multimedia interfaces in their exhibits to enhance the overall experience of their visitors. This project aims at presenting such an interface for a museum featuring a collection of 30 musical instruments from the Renaissance era.

Users can navigate around the interface and interact with all the instruments, learn more about their history and evolution, their classification into percussion, woodwind, string, brass, and keyboard instruments, and even listen to how these instruments sounded like, back in those times. This interface is highly user-friendly and makes use of voice commands such as "Read the description" which reads the description pages of the instrument the user is interacting with and "How did it sound?" which plays the sound of the instrument.

The multimedia content I created myself involves editing of all the images in the two main list pages where every image had to be cropped in a circular fashion with same dimensions so to give them a uniform look and feel. Besides this, I had to edit all the audio files downloaded from various sources from the internet and turn them into small clips for using in the interface.

References

1. https://www.metmuseum.org/about-the-met/curatorial-departments/musical-instruments
2. https://mim.org/galleries/special-exhibitions/
3. http://www.accademia.org/esplora-il-museo/le-sale/museo-degli-strumenti-musicali/
4. https://www.khm.at/en/visit/collections/collection-of-historic-musical-instruments/selected-masterpieces/
5. https://artsandculture.google.com/usergallery/pgKiYHawYnw9JA
6. http://www.vam.ac.uk/content/articles/m/music-for-the-lute/
7. https://www.recorderhomepage.net/history/the-renaissance-period/
8. https://www.music.iastate.edu/antiqua/
9. Music 121-Renaissance Instruments: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jPJNJr6iBrs&list=PLFZEKHKLkiB1aMGmKlA05Hs2R4Qzj1zD1
10. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I8tW06fv8sg
11. Google Images
12. Wikipedia

Author

Vedant Shrivastava (GitHub: https://github.com/ivedants ; Email: ivedantshrivastava@gmail.com)