TLDR of the propososal, sorry it ended up being so long:
Humanity urgently needs free community events where they can experience shared sacredness through singing together regardless of religious affiliation to survive the coming psychological fallout from loss of purpose. (I don't go to church because I feel like a phony outsider amongst believers and it ruins the experience for me).
Seeing a mathematician crying and quoting the bible in a New York Times interview was the last straw for me, I feel like something has to be done.
In order to reestablish the pratice of shared sacredness through we singing, we are going to need many more amateur musicians who can accompany collective singing. In order to maximise the shared sacredness experience I propose that these amateur musicians should be trained to improvise accompaniment in the historical style (baroque to classical) because this is what worked for the church and because this is where extensive, complete musical material is already available essentially turning the task into a lengthy memorisation exercise of stock phrases (for community accompaniment, not professsional career musicianship).
A disciplined amatuer would need about 5 years on their own and 2 with a teacher and that's assuming they remain diligent with their practice. The friction to achieving sufficient fluency in this style is very high (I've tried).
Enter the haptic feedback interface (gloves and software) as the proposed solution, essentially duolingo for keyboard that rapidly teaches historical improvisation by taking advantage of the fact that keyboard finger patterns can be passively absorbed with haptic feedback gloves while simultaneously learning the stock phrases by singing them with additional memory anchors provided by techniques like hexachordal solfege that helps turn music into "words" and "phrases" reducing working memory load by chunking.
If the correct keyboard fingering can be absorbed while singing the phrases that alone should cut learning time in half (again for community accompaniment, not professional musicianship). According to a Georiga Tech study on passive haptic feedback learning, complete amateurs were able to learn 10 note patterns after 3 expsorues, learning them without paying attention. Musical patterns are inherently more memorable and can be chunked into 4 note pieces.
I am asking for funding to be able to dedicate myself full time to developing this haptic learning interface, which if it works as expected can be developed further into commercial entreprise serving hobbyists by teaching piano pieces or stock phrases for improvisation in other styles (romantic era harmony, jazz, pop, etc). Appyling the haptic feedback based learning to other keyed instruments could an interesting area new product development in the future. If the product is commercially successful a significant proportion (aiming for as much as 50%) of the profits will be used to support the musicians who trained to improvise accompaniments using the program to establish free or low-cost shared sacredness experiences (secular mass if you will). I think in 2 years time we could have the first cohort of community accompanists ready to start leading sessions and a commercially viable product to support this, which initally focuses on teaching improvisation and pieces that fit into the baroque and classical style. If the interface works as intended the marketing writes itself (download music into your brain).