PROMPTOPHONICS

Proof of Concept

MULTI-SENDsory PICTURE PROMPTOPHONICS

From Picture to Conversation to Personalisation

A Proof of Concept for an AI-Assisted, Multi-SENDsory Personalisation Interface for Music Making

Kevin M. Thomson & Sally M. Thomson  •  DysMusical.Me  •  2026

INTRODUCTION

The PROMPTOGRAPHIC above is more than an illustration of the project.

It is the interface.

It brings the whole TONES architecture into one visual field so that two very different intelligences can encounter the same picture: YOU and YOUR:AI.

Rather than beginning with a blank AI prompt box and expecting the user to know what to ask, Picture PROMPTOPHONICS puts the BIG PICTURE first.

The Proof of Concept asks a deceptively simple question:

WHAT IF AI PERSONALISATION STARTED WITH THE PERSON — NOT THE PROMPT?

Music learners and makers differ in age, ability, experience, aspiration, personality, perception, sensory needs, confidence, communication and the WAIYS in which they learn best.

For SEND and SEMH users those differences can create significant barriers. But difference is not confined to SEND.

The aim is therefore not to build another separate SEND music method.

It is to explore whether multimodal AI can help make the interface to ANY MUSIC • ANY METHOD increasingly adaptable to the individual.

That proposition is expressed through the 5V Large Learning Model of Music:

VISUAL  •  VISCERAL  •  VOCAL  •  VERBAL  •  VIRTUAL

and through the Infinite Personalisation Triad:

WELL-PLAIYING  •  WELL-BEINGS  •  WELL-ADJUSTED

Together they form the foundation of Multi-SENDsory Picture PROMPTOPHONICS.

FROM A STATIC PICTURE TO A LIVING CONVERSATION

The pages that follow explain how the architecture works, why it has been developed, what evidence sits behind it, and how a PROMPTOGRAPHIC can become the starting point for an ongoing conversation between YOU  •  YOUR:AI  •  YOUR:SELF.

This is deliberately presented as a Proof of Concept.

It is an invitation to SEE IT  •  EXPLORE IT  •  ASK IT  •  UNDERSTAND IT  •  PERSONALISE IT  •  PROVE IT  •  TRANSFORM IT.

POC — AI LIVE VOICE + LIVE VIDEO

SEE IT IN ACTION

What happens when YOUR:AI can not only hear what you say — but see how you are making music?

PROMPTOPHONICS is being developed as a Multi-Modal, Multi-SENDsory interface between the music maker, the music-making environment and AI.

This Proof of Concept explores the next step: combining Live Voice + Live Video + Picture PROMPTOPHONICS so that the AI can share more of the music maker's context.

THE POC FLOW

YOU PLAY  →  CAMERA SEES  →  YOUR:AI INTERPRETS  →  GUIDA RESPONDS  →  YOU PLAY ON

The ambition is simple: move beyond AI knowing only what you type or say towards an interaction in which YOU and YOUR:AI can share the music-making context — the instrument, the PROMPTOGRAPHIC, the physical interaction and the conversation around it.

This is not intended to replace the teacher, tutor, therapist, parent, carer or musician. It explores how AI could make an existing music-making experience more accessible, adaptable and personal.

SEE IT  •  HEAR IT  •  SAY IT  •  DO IT  •  FEEL IT  •  SHARE IT

Live Video functionality shown here is part of the Proof of Concept and proposed development pathway.

SEVEN WAIYS OF MUSIC MAIKING — ONE PROOF OF CONCEPT

THE SENDigital 7

The SENDigital 7 bring PROMPTOPHONICS out of theory and into music making.

Developed through the MACROLOGUS 2026 programme, these seven WAIYS explore different musical encounters — including touch, gesture, rhythm, pitch, sight, symbols, voice and visual pattern.

They are not seven new methods that everybody has to learn.

Together they demonstrate the central PROMPTOPHONICS proposition:

KEEP YOUR MUSIC  •  KEEP YOUR METHOD  •  FIND YOUR WAIY

ANY AGE  •  ANY ABILITY  •  ANY ASPIRATION

FROM ONE RIGHT WAIY → TO DIFFERENT WAIYS

The seven applications form a Proof-of-Concept testbed for the 5V-LMM — the Large Learning Model of Music — and the 5V PROMPTOGRAPHICSystem:

VISCERAL  •  VISUAL  •  VOCAL  •  VERBAL  •  VIRTUAL

Instead of requiring the person to adapt continually to the music-learning interface, the proposition is to explore how the interface can increasingly adapt to the person.

That is the bridge from Multi-SENDsory music making → Picture PROMPTOPHONICS → Infinite Personalisation.

THE SENDigital DOUBLE-DIARY

FROM MUSIC MAIKING TO WELL-BEING

Music making isn't only about how WELL you play. It can also be about how WELL you are.

The SENDigital Double-Diary brings the 5 Ways to Wellbeing together with music making and personal reflection.

One side asks WHAT DID I DO?

The other asks HOW DID I FEEL?

ACTIONS  +  EMOTIONS  +  TIME

Together they create a changing personal picture — not simply of musical performance, but of the part music making may play in MY WELL-BEING.

OUR PROMPTOPHONICS AWARD ENTRY

MUSIC & DRAMA EDUCATION AWARDS

Want the bigger picture?

Read our Music & Drama Education Awards entry — the original PDF setting out PROMPTOPHONICS, the thinking behind it and its application to inclusive, MULTI-SENDsory music making.