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Adaptive Use Musical Instrument Adaptive Use Music Making and Improvisation AUMI trainings are available for Adaptive Use Musical instruments Training for Organizations.

AUMI Training for Schools, Clinics and Organizations

Currently hosted by Renssalaer Polytechnic Institute's Center for Cognition, Communication and Culture, the AUMI software interface and iOS App are new musical instruments that enable people who have very limited controlled (voluntary) movement to independently engage in music making. The AUMI training was developed by therapist Leaf Miller and other researchers after years of using the AUMI interface in a Drum group for students with disabilities. She brings AUMI technical training along with World Drumming in a half day, full day and multiple day trainings. You can choose from the options below or we can create a custom training for your group. AUMI Presentation (1.5 hours):
For schools, colleges, organizations, conferences
includes:
* AUMI PowerPoint Presentation on the history and use of AUMI
* AUMI Demo/Group Particiapation with using AUMI and
Drums/Percussion

Skype AUMI Presentation/Discussions:
For a classroom setting
includes:
* AUMI History/Use Presentation
* AUMI Tutorial
* Discussion on AUMI and Music Accessibility

Half Day training (3 hours):
For staff and/or Parents
includes:
*Introduction to the Adaptive Use Musical Instruments (AUMI)
*AUMI Demo/Hand on Workshop

Full Day Training (5-6 hours):
For staff and/or Parents
includes:
*Introduction to the Adaptive Use Musical instruments (AUMI)
* AUMI Tutorial
* Introduction to the use of AUMI in Individual and Group
Settings
* Hand on Workshop with Students/Patients

AUMI Multi Day Training (3 Days):
For staff and/or parents
Session 1:
* Introduction to the Adaptive Use Musical Instruments (AUMI)
* AUMI Tutorial
* Introduction to the use of AUMI in Individual and Group
Settings
* Hands on Workshop

Session 2:
* Training of staff and/or parents with students/patients in a
hands on workshops

Session 3:
* Follow up on the use of AUMI
* Help with any issues/questions

AUMI Residencies (1 to 2 weeks):
For School, Clinics, Organizations

AUMI Trainers, Leaf and Jaclyn, will come and work with individual staff, students, parents using AUMI and create an AUMI drum circle for your school, clinic and organization to offer to your students/patients. Email [email protected] for pricing and additional information

Here's something I'm working on in AUMI, it's pretty experimental, but in some cases, real fun!AUMI Pose detecting has t...
09/13/2024

Here's something I'm working on in AUMI, it's pretty experimental, but in some cases, real fun!

AUMI Pose detecting has two modes: registering and running.
Registering looks for stable images (really fingerprints of stable images) that are different from ones it "knows" about already. The first registered pose is the "no pose" that is a way to purposefully not play a note.
Subsequent saved poses map 1-to-1 to sound boxes.
When running, the incoming video is fingerprinted and then compared to the pose collection. The winner moves the cursor to that sound box!

That means every other aspect of AUMI is available through these detected poses.

You can't save them, because the image fingerprints are too closely related to the original images it's working with, but If I change the fingerprint algorithm to be a little more loose, maybe that will make sense.

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Upcoming feature in the next AUMI; some new tone row based scales: chromatic, diatonic, and pentatonic.
07/18/2024

Upcoming feature in the next AUMI; some new tone row based scales: chromatic, diatonic, and pentatonic.

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For a while I've been thinking of adding a "silence" button that works like the "send to listeners" feature.Previously, ...
05/25/2024

For a while I've been thinking of adding a "silence" button that works like the "send to listeners" feature.
Previously, the easiest way to quiet down listener devices was to send them a "silent" setup! That's a little radical and of course resets all their carefully setup setups.
So I added new buttons to
remotely turn off,
restore it the was it was (that is, if it was off already, it won't turn it on),
toggle and
turn on
This lets the room quiet down quickly for those who can get to the SILENCE button.

Apple also tossed a wrench in the works by now not allowing devices to identify themselves with the names you gave them.
For instance, my iPad "lacewing" identifies as "iPad". AUMI uses these ids to identify devices that are "listening".
So I added a way to rename your device for AUMI sharing purposes. You can give them any name you like, which is actually a pretty good thing.

so that'll be in the next release (2.2.3).

04/23/2024

AUMI 2.2.2 is in the store! It turns out the devices on iOSes earlier than iOS17 would get a crash instead of AUMI! Now it should work - download it and try it out! There is one other (weird) feature, that you can now fiddle with the sound order of the sound files of even melodic instruments! That means you can make up "tunings" that are not normally in the "tunings" list if you are extrememly clever.

04/02/2024

Hey Adaptive Users! There's a new AUMI , 2.2.1, available for you to download and update from the App store! It's actually a pretty extensive bunch of tweaks! Try it, and read all about it! http://aumiapp.com/AUMI-2.2.1.php

The long-awaited AUMI book, Improvising Across Abilities will be released in February 2024!
10/29/2023

The long-awaited AUMI book, Improvising Across Abilities will be released in February 2024!

Improvising Across Abilities: Pauline Oliveros and the Adaptive Use Musical Instrument (AUMI) brings together scholars, musicians, and family members of people with disabilities to collectively recount ...

The New AUMI (iOs/Mac Silicon desktop) has a new rhythm in it: Take 5:
10/22/2023

The New AUMI (iOs/Mac Silicon desktop) has a new rhythm in it: Take 5:

The newest AUMI will have the "Take 5" 5/4 rhythm in it. You can play it as percussion or ass a melodic instrument with various scales, and add choring to it...

The Zoom video archive of Henry Lowengard's Jan. 26 2023 Disabilities Studies Seminar talk on AUMI Together and other A...
02/01/2023

The Zoom video archive of Henry Lowengard's Jan. 26 2023 Disabilities Studies Seminar talk on AUMI Together and other AUMI subjects is up for viewing on the aumiapp.com website.

http://aumiapp.com

The AUMI iOS Version 2.2 is available, and is free! click here: for more information about AUMI 2.2. click here: for the list of available AUMI Instruments. Click below to download it from the App Store if you are reading this on an iOS device.

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