Encoding an Experience

ESTHER A.

04 November, 2016

Detailed encoding for Play Five Repertoire

COMPONENT	TYPE	NUMBER OF BITS/RANGE	Description /Comments
Emotion	ASCII	(0-50 characters) 400 bits	The emotion of the repertoire for example, can be “happy”, or “sad”. This can be expressed in a short one or two-word description. It will take about 10 characters to describe each repertoire and each character is 8bits.
Volume	Number	7 bits (0-100dB)	Throughout the repertoire the band is performing at a range of ppp (whispering, very soft, 0dB) and at fff (extremely loud, 100dB)
Articulation	ASCII	(0-210 characters) 1680 bits	In a repertoire, there are various types of articulations including legato, staccato, accent, slur, sforzando, and phrase mark.  Each music can contain up to 6 articulations, each about 7 characters.
Tone	ASCII	(0-25 characters) 200 bits	The tone of the music can be described in a short one to two word such as “light” or “heavy”. The tone of each repertoire can be describe in a five characters. Each character takes 8bits.
Tempo	Number	8 Bits (0-200)	Depending on the music the tempo can range from grave (15), a slow speed to prestissimo (200). It is best to represent the tempo in numbers.
Time	Number	13 bits (0-8191 secs) (0-2 hours)	The time of the repertoire can be measured in seconds since the opening of the concert to the end of the concert. 2 bits provides (0-8191) seconds for a little over two hours. This is important for knowing the order of repertoire.

Reflection:

                                                   From doing this project, I realized that not every single component that goes into performing a band concert can be encoded. This is an example of abstraction-removing irrelevant detail to focus on the valuable characteristics. Not every component of performing a band concert is important. For example, the color of the seats in the auditorium is not as important as the tempo of each repertoire.  When only the important components are mentioned, the whole experience takes less bits to encode.  However, since many things will be left out, there are drawbacks. The exact experience cannot be replicated.  This means it is lossy. Also, the exact experience cannot be duplicated because the number of bits for each component is only a rough estimation, not precise and can be inaccurate.