We wanted to link two major senses: sight and hearing. The goal was to propose something that enables musicians and music lovers to associate an artwork with a special music. This application offers a real new way to visit museums for musicians and music lovers.
Our choices regarding the application:
We wanted a clear and simple app. After chosing the museum they’re going to visit, people just have to take a picture of the artwork or choose an artwork directly from the database of the museum integrated in the application. A short description of the artwork is available as well as an explanation of the universe of the artwork, the painter, to justify the choice of the musics in the playlist. Then, we wanted to add a participative side in our application. That’s why we want to create a system of likes and dislikes to adapt the playlist as more and more people use it. In addition to that and thanks to feedbacks we had, we decided to allow people to synchronyze directly their songs (Deezer, Spotify, IMusic) in order to offer them not only music but artworks that are linked with the music they love.
The technologies required:
In order to develop this application, we first need to have an access to the database of the museum to be able to list all the artworks, all the universes… Then, a music database is needed. In addition to this, we also need to allow people to connect their Deezer or Spotify profiles to the application.
Who would be interested?
The first customers of our application would be museums. Trying to reinvent, modernize the visit of museum-goers is one of the major goals of a museum. Our application would connect hearing and sight by creating a real link between these two senses. More than a way to listen music during a visit, it would offer people a real work of matching (artwork and music) and would place the visitor directly in the universe of the artwork or the artist. Among potential customers, musicians are the first concerned but we also wanted to include all music lovers.
Concerning the future?
Other technologies could be integrated in the application so as to simplify and democratize it. The simpler is the application, the more people will be interested in it. The NFC (Near Field Communication) technology could offer another way to match the right music with the right artwork. The NFC technology is already implemented in all our smartphones, so there is no need for users to download any other application before visiting the museum. Museums just need to install one NFC tag / box next to each artwork. The user opens the application when he enters in the museum, and each time he changes artworks he sticks his smartphone on the right NFC tag. His smartphone will recognize this NFC tag and quickly begin to play the playlist associated with this artwork. For the user, this technology would make the use of the application easier, because he would no longer need to take pictures of each artwork. No need to switch your phone on at each new artwork. Just get your phone out of your pocket and stick it on the NFC tag. For the museum, it is really easy to build, program, and implement the NFC tags next to each artwork. Many software, like “NFC Task Launcher”, enable to program theses tags. And they are rather cheap.