{"id":278,"date":"2014-11-28T18:23:22","date_gmt":"2014-11-28T18:23:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gordonsmind.com\/?p=278"},"modified":"2014-11-30T15:11:33","modified_gmt":"2014-11-30T15:11:33","slug":"karaoke-and-interactive-media","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gordonsmind.com\/?p=278","title":{"rendered":"Karaoke and Interactive Media"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Karaoke<\/a><\/p>\n

Learning to enjoy singing led to the problem of memorizing the words.\u00a0 Videodisc and CD+G made synchronizing lyrics possible.\u00a0 Synchronizing the sound with the visual was the early part of my entrepreneuial career.\u00a0 When I learned that “Dragon Lair” game was run from a computer driving the playback of the video, I knew that interactive media was going to be my career. Computers where not fast enough to render the visual so the “play” would seek to the position of the video disc for the “pre-recording” video segment that went with play.\u00a0 You might have latency of 1 to 4 seconds but this was the best interactrive video available.<\/p>\n

Videodisc was a great fit for Karaoke.\u00a0 You could pause, skip ahead or back, select a new song etc.\u00a0 I learned what I could then got a job as a video producer with an agency that had all the equipment I needed for video production.\u00a0I started to get contracts for “interactive video”.\u00a0 These were to create material for training, kiosks, simulation, and of course karaoke.\u00a0\u00a0 Even computer training was made from capturing video from computer screen, then in the post production creating the interactivity and narration.\u00a0 Eventually,\u00a0 I incorporated under the name of Interactive Creations, Inc.<\/p>\n

The closest thing in the late 80’s to get visual material on a CD was using the format CD plus Graphics (CD+G) which remained the best way for putting Karaoke on disc unti DVD became a standard format. We got work from Warner Interactive, The Singing Machine, Priddis Music, Commodore, Tandy, 3D0,\u00a0 and even Philips.\u00a0 We created an improved CD+G encorder and decorder.\u00a0 The production companies wanted the encoder and the manufacturers of the multimedia entertainment machines wanted the decoders.\u00a0Which is interesting since in the world of Dyslexia the\u00a0phrase decoding\u00a0sounds,\u00a0 decoding words, decoding meaning, and decoding dyslexia. \u00a0 Decoding the writing or spoken language into my brain for meaning and memorization is a different processing than 80 person of the general public.\u00a0 An I might say that encoding what’s in my brain to speak or write is a different process than the majority of people too. They have learned\u00a0that highlighting words while listening to the reader helps in the sequencing and comprehension.<\/p>\n

Anyway, even though I had no idea about my Dyslexia, I was doing work that improved by coordination ability and provide entertainment and exersize for others.\u00a0 All of the syncrhonized editing of lyrics or narraction with graphics, animation, and video was great left-brain\/right-brain exercise for me.\u00a0 I was doing something that felt right for me and engaging for others.\u00a0 I didn’t know that its was therapeutic.
\nRead about Joyful Music & Dance Studios. <a href=”http:\/\/www.joyfulmusicanddance.com\/blog\/posts\/music-therapy-helps-children-with-autism-and-developmental-dyslexia-use-and-understand-speech.html”>Music Therapy Helps Children<\/a> \u00a0with autism and develpmental dyslexia use and understand speech.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Learning to enjoy singing led to the problem of memorizing the words.\u00a0 Videodisc and CD+G made synchronizing lyrics possible.\u00a0 Synchronizing the sound with the visual was the early part of my entrepreneuial career.\u00a0 When I learned that “Dragon Lair” game was run from a computer driving the playback of the video, I knew that interactive […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-278","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-about","category-art"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gordonsmind.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gordonsmind.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gordonsmind.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gordonsmind.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gordonsmind.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=278"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gordonsmind.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":280,"href":"https:\/\/gordonsmind.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278\/revisions\/280"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gordonsmind.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=278"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gordonsmind.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=278"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gordonsmind.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=278"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}