Parichaykrama – An Exploratory Interface of Indian Classical Music Using Experiential Framework

Abstract

The design and development of large-scale repositories especially of content types like music pose challenging problems. We believe such databases should have exploratory interfaces centered on user experience as a navigation tool. Further the interface should not be constrained by the cognitive model of the developer and should be able to adapt to the user’s own perception of how the content should be searched. We present such a system for Indian Classical Music. Here each musical piece is qualified by seven characteristics. The user can choose any one of them, at a time, to reduce the candidate collection. Musicons are used to help select the characteristic. Eliminating the characteristics one by one, the user arrives at the piece of his/her choice.