Virtual Harmonics, LLC at virtualharmonics.com
Virtual Harmonics™
Symbolic Media for Music, Art, and Interactive Performance
Virtual Harmonics, LLC is a symbolic media company based in Sacramento, California.
We develop and license instruments, methods, and media systems that transform relationships among music, color, movement, image, and structure into playable, visual, and computational objects.
Our work begins with a simple principle:
The same relationship can be expressed in more than one form.
A musical relationship can be heard as sound, seen as color, arranged spatially, performed through different physical patterns, and preserved as part of a reusable symbolic object.
The Symbolic Instrument™
The Symbolic Instrument™ is the lead product under development at Virtual Harmonics.
It is a reconfigurable seven-tone virtual instrument through which a person can compose, perform, visualize, transform, and exchange musical relationships.
The underlying symbolic object remains consistent while its human interface can change.
A user may engage with the same seven-tone object through:
- a piano keyboard;
- flute fingerings;
- recorder fingerings;
- a seven-color panel;
- conventional musical notation;
- spatial patterns;
- animated visual media.
Changing the instrument interface does not require replacing the underlying musical object.
The same phrase can be played as a piano pattern, interpreted through flute or recorder fingerings, displayed as a color composition, and preserved with its original relationships intact.
The Symbolic Instrument is therefore not simply a software imitation of one physical instrument. It is a common symbolic performance layer with multiple playable embodiments.
Core Methods
Object-Oriented Music™
Object-Oriented Music™ represents musical relationships as reusable visual and computational objects.
Pitch, rhythm, harmony, position, direction, and form can be represented independently and then recombined without losing their underlying relationships.
This makes musical structure available for performance, education, analysis, visualization, and interactive media.
Color Harmonics™
Color Harmonics™ provides a defined transformation method between musical and visual relationships.
Rather than treating music visualization as an arbitrary decorative effect, Color Harmonics uses consistent symbolic mappings through which musical structures can be interpreted, composed, and communicated visually.
Object-Oriented Objects™
Object-Oriented Objects™ is the underlying compositional method supporting the work of Virtual Harmonics.
It enables symbolic objects to retain their definitions, relationships, mappings, provenance, and resulting expressions across different instruments and media environments.
Object-Oriented Objects is not presented as a standalone consumer product. It is the enabling intellectual property beneath the Symbolic Instrument and related Virtual Harmonics technologies.
A utility patent application covering the underlying architecture has been filed.
Object-Oriented Media™
Object-Oriented Media™ extends these methods into visual art, animation, performance, education, and interactive communication.
Music, color, image, movement, text, and structured information can become coordinated expressions of the same underlying symbolic relationships.
One Object, Multiple Expressions
A Symbolic Instrument object may begin as a seven-tone musical phrase.
That object can then be:
- played through a flute fingering interface;
- reopened through a piano keyboard;
- expressed through seven corresponding colors;
- arranged as a spatial composition;
- animated in time;
- incorporated into an educational lesson or performance;
- published as an interactive media object.
The object provides continuity across these expressions.
The instrument provides the means to engage with it.
Applications
Virtual Harmonics technologies are being developed for applications including:
- connected musical instruments;
- music-learning and practice systems;
- cross-instrument education;
- composition and improvisation;
- accessible performance interfaces;
- music visualization;
- interactive exhibitions;
- visual accompaniment for recorded and live music;
- symbolic communication;
- creative AI and human-computer performance.
Working prototypes have been developed using manual visual methods, spreadsheets, Python, Jupyter notebooks, and interactive web technologies.
Commercial Development and Licensing
Virtual Harmonics is developing the Symbolic Instrument as a reference implementation and licensing platform.
The company is interested in working with:
- musical-instrument manufacturers;
- digital-piano and keyboard companies;
- music-software developers;
- education and curriculum providers;
- creative-technology companies;
- performance and exhibition partners.
Potential commercial relationships include paid technical evaluations, institutional pilots, product integrations, field-of-use licenses, and strategic licensing of the underlying intellectual property.
Virtual Harmonics intends to develop the core symbolic methods and reference implementations in collaboration with established partners capable of engineering, manufacturing, distributing, and supporting commercial products at scale.
Why “Virtual Harmonics”?
In acoustics, a missing fundamental may still be perceived through the relationships among the harmonics that remain. The listener recognizes a coherent whole even when its foundational tone is not directly sounded.
Virtual Harmonics applies that principle to symbolic media.
Sound, color, movement, shape, and structure may appear to be separate forms. When their relationships are made visible, they can be recognized as expressions of the same u
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Perpendicular Systems™ at PerpendicularSystems.com
Our Technology Division, Perpendicular Systems, develops Virtual Distributed Symbolic SaaSish User-Composed Components called "SaaSi Cubes"™ designed for artists, musicians, individuals and small businesses.
Our Virtual Harmonics "Deliberately Disaggregated Architecture Model"™, or DDAM, allows for the integration and processing of both real and imaginary associations between data on different planes of operation and in different systems.
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