Detmold musical Instrument Timbre Explorer (DmITE): Interactive visualization of musical instruments radiation pattern using IEEE 1599

In this contribution, we present Detmold musical Instrument Timbre Explorer (DmITE), a web application that allows for advanced interaction with multimedia materials. For the ACTOR (Analyses, Creation, and Teaching of ORchestration) project, a database capturing the same melody played by different instruments at various angles around the instrument has been collected. For each instrument, a visual representation of timbre is provided by a polar spectrogram. This work connects the development of the ACTOR Project with the IEEE 1599 standard, an XML-based format aimed at representing music in its multiple aspects. Structured as a multi-layer document, an IEEE 1599 file supports multiple and synchronized instances of scores and audio renderings. The integration of the heterogeneous materials collected for the ACTOR Project within a dedicated web platform based on the IEEE 1599 standard allows for advanced features, such as side-by-side graphical visualizations and fast audio track switching. This application offers user-focused learning experiences, making it valuable for educational purposes in sound engineering, orchestration, composition, musical acoustics, and timbre research.