The most mesmerizing product at the Toy Fair goes to the Musical DNA Software. The technology is a bit over my head, so I’ll try to explain it as best as I can. You see, music is the universal language, right? Well, Ken Lemons, creator of the software and also a music lover, decided to develop a technology that uses rainbow-colored geometry to “light-up” music. That way, a person can see “the larger structures of music and how the ensuing shapes fit together, like pieces of a puzzle.” Lemons discovered that in 2D, music is a circle; in 3D, however, music is a spiral, comparable to a spiraling strand of DNA!
Musical DNA can be used as an educational music tool, language translation, child development, musical recording, music composition, and beyond. Musical DNA Software will be releasing in a week or so The Master Key Teaching Method: The Foundation for Piano—a handbook that teaches the fundamentals of music through visual learning—as well as the 1.0 release version software, allowing users to plug in all MIDI instruments to light up musical sound. This software is said to show instrument fingerboards, musical notation, 2D and 3D music visualizations, and 2D and 3D rhythmic visualizations. Both the software and handbook are expected to retail for $50.
Check out my brief interview with Ken Lemons below!