[LAU] Announde: DSP02 - Music composition software for children

[Cesare Marilungo]

Kjetil Svalastog Matheussen wrote:
> David Baron:
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>> This is a Java program. No need to compile it, just run the script 
>> supplied.
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>> My comments: This does have a fairly simple interface to playing with 
>> sounds. The parameters portrayed/drawn on these screens are technical, 
>> however. One can have fun with the program but the pitch of the sound (if 
>> it has one, you can download farm animal samples from their site :-) ), 
>> is fixed on these screens. One cannot play a keyboard and compose music with 
>> this, just assemble series of sounds on multiple tracks (quite handily, 
>> but still...)
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> You can do everything in this program, but not in realtime, as you 
> seems to be used to. This probably stems from the attitude of 
> electroacoustic composing at the time the program was first made, in 1995.
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>> An older child that is bent towards playing with synthesis might get into 
>> this program but when he/she cannot really compose, will doubtless be 
>> frustrated and leave it behind. It is really not a kids program as such. 
>> It remains fairly technical.
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> Yes, it might be frustrating for a person who is very much used to 
> composing with realtime tools, plug-ins and such. Those were not the 
> common way to work when this program was first made. However, realtime 
> tools are not necesarrily allways the best way to work. Non-realtime gives 
> a bit more relaxed atmosphere of composing, and you have to think more 
> about what you are doing, thus its also a more pedagogic way to work.
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> (I worked on a previous version of DSP though, and I made it possible to 
> tweak the effects in realtime, but this feature did not make it into 
> DSP02 by the new programmer.)
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>> The nicest kids program but with enough technical stuff to satisfy adults
>> (older kids) as well is Tuxpaint. This has been used/tested in Italian
>> schools. Make a music program along these lines that can be used to play 
>> a real song with all those nice/funny/wierd sounds one concocts (or in 
>> its paradigm, chooses from a pallete and modifies) and you have 
>> something!
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> DSP has been used by school children in norway, england, denmark, sweden 
> and finland for 12 years. Lots of amazing music has been made with it. It 
> is not ment to be a toy, but a program where you can make professional 
> sounding music.
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I wish I had this at school when I was a child.

c.

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