Why This Format?

I decided to publish my reflection report under the following web-based format so that the reader can also listen to, explore, and interact with the different examples. All audio samples are loaded quickly and will work with sufficient speed in different browsers. Furthermore, different apps and software are referenced and are part of my literature review and bibliography. For the sake of demonstration and for the benefit of the reader, it is more practical to use video clips and interactive sequences.

The game audio middleware runs on many platforms, ranging from PC and Mac to web browsers, mobile devices, and gaming consoles. The regular audio examples use the following player, here with the opening song of The Aquatic Museum album:

The random examples use the following icon to indicate random features during playback: , or for looping. I also added play, stop, and mute buttons for instruments on multi-track files. Here is an example from the process section about rhythmic transformations. Three different loops of different lengths and meters (4/4, 13/8, and 21/8) are randomly shuffled, and the bass or drum track can be muted. Another example on swing ratios in the Advanced Teaching Skills section also uses different loops that are randomly shuffled and assigns different probabilities to four loops (3×30% and 1×10% chance). This is also a good test of the reader’s playback system, in case the buttons are grayed out or no audio is playing:

Publishing this content would have been difficult on a standard blog engine (e.g., WordPress), so I had to rely on different technologies. This website also offers wiki-style cross-links between the reflection report research and the pedagogical research.

The main focus is not on technological aspects, but the ones that are relevant to the main subject will be mentioned and linked in the following callout boxes:

The Chrome browser is recommended, but this site has also been tested with Safari and Firefox. It should function on most recent mobile devices, Android as well as iOS. In some rare cases on mobile devices, it may be necessary to request¹ the desktop version of a website. Should you encounter any bugs or technical problems, please email me, and I can send you all the media files in more traditional formats.