ThumMusings: ThumMusic System

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Name: ThumMeister

Location: Austin, Texas, United States

In the late 1980’s, I tried to write insanely great code for the Mac and help others do so, too. When Windows swept through the Valley in 1991-2, I realized my great code would become worthless if the Mac platform sank. I became very interested in knowing how to spot winning platforms. Since Microsoft clearly knew how to make its platforms succeed, I joined its Systems Strategy Group. While designing and executing practical "technology evangelism" campaigns, I studied the theory behind the practice, eventually teaching mandatory "how-to" seminars to Microsoft's new evangelists. I left Microsoft in 2000, looking for a new industry to disrupt. When my wife quit her piano lessons after six months of diligent practice, saying that “music is just too hard,” I knew I’d found it. Hammering the Web relentlessly, I found a novel combination of old ideas which could make music dramatically easier to teach, learn, & play, more emotionally expressive, and expand the frontiers of tonality. This blog tells the story of my bringing those innovations to market.

Sunday, September 23, 2007

ThumMusic System

I've placed a PowerPoint presentation on the website describing the ThumMusic System. It's a large file (25MB) because it includes an audio track of me narrating each slide. A version without narration is much smaller, and can be found here; its "note pages" contain the same info as my vocal narration. If you print out the notes pages and read from them as you click through the slies, you'll get the same information, albeit less conveniently.

The ThumMusic System is so visually-oriented that it is much more easily understood by viewing a presentation than by reading a text description (although a text description can be found as HTML here and as PDF here).

If you don't have PowerPoint installed, you can watch the presentation using a PowerPoint Viewer, available for Windows & Mac.

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