Electronic Music Interactive is a multimedia primer for electronic music that prepares students for more advanced study. Developed by the New Media Center at the University of Oregon, Electronic Music Interactive is a state-of-the-art example of network deliverable instructional materials. Created in Director for Shockwave, the core file occupies about 410k and can be completely down loaded over a 28.8 modem in approximately 4 minutes. It includes 80 original diagrams, 50 original interactive animations with sound and 150 interactive glossary terms explaining content distributed across 38 topic modules. Its table of contents is a navigation information system, providing access to related topics locally and at any of the topic modules. Besides providing a survey of the subject, Electronic Music Interactive creates understanding through the user-controlled manipulation of audio/visual representations of key concepts like the relationship of waveform to sound. It exemplifies the power of multimedia to enhance learning to an almost startling degree. Altogether, the project has taken about ten months from initial meetings to the final phase. Jeffrey Stolet, Professor of Music and Director of Future Music Oregon, is the content specialist on the project.Thirteen advanced students from Linguistics, Visual Design and Computer Science have worked on it as well as Steve McGrew, Project Director and Mike Holcomb, New Media Center Director. Multimedia publishers, teachers, musicians and designers are especially invited to try Electronic Music Interactive.

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