Tarmo,

Fascinating.

I've done a number of somewhat similar sound-exploring projects for 
children, for the XO computers (One Laptop Per Child) and Sugar (Fedora 
Linux). I've used one or more ASCII keyboards as controllers, or one or more 
MIDI slider boxes.

Your project might adapt well to OLPC and Sugar. Have you thought about it?

Art Hunkins

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Tarmo Johannes" 
To: 
Sent: Friday, June 01, 2012 3:48 AM
Subject: [Csnd] Csound in kindergarden


> Hello,
>
> I had a nice experience with my son's kindergarden group yestereday - I
> created a new interactive performance piece  for players on sliders and
> switches.  Soundwise it was based almost entirey on scanned synthesis (+ 
> some
> resonant filters).
>
> The sound was synthesized in real time and it was influenced by the 
> actions of
> the children and computer itself - the pitch changes reflect the 
> temperature
> changes of the computer's CPU, read at moments of certain switch 
> combinations.
> Thus the computer performed along the children.
> The controlling program  was written in C++ and Qt, using Csound API.
> The idea was to give children an experience that music can be also sound, 
> not
> just only melody or beat...
> It was great fun!
> A video about it is up on https://vimeo.com/43235666
> If you have more specific questions, please let me know!
>
> greetings,
> tarmo
>
>
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Hello,

interesting! Do you have information up somewhere about your pojects?
I am not sure about the XO computers in theis realisation - I used now one 
central computer generating the sound and calculating at some poitn 28 scanned 
sythesis waves is quite comutation extensive. But of course to give a computer 
to a child not just a slider or knob and connect them somehow would open up so 
much possibilities!

greetings,
tarmo

On Saturday 02 June 2012 17:32:13 Art Hunkins wrote:
> Tarmo,
> 
> Fascinating.
> 
> I've done a number of somewhat similar sound-exploring projects for
> children, for the XO computers (One Laptop Per Child) and Sugar (Fedora
> Linux). I've used one or more ASCII keyboards as controllers, or one or more
> MIDI slider boxes.
> 
> Your project might adapt well to OLPC and Sugar. Have you thought about it?
> 
> Art Hunkins
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Tarmo Johannes" 
> To: 
> Sent: Friday, June 01, 2012 3:48 AM
> Subject: [Csnd] Csound in kindergarden
> 
> > Hello,
> > 
> > I had a nice experience with my son's kindergarden group yestereday - I
> > created a new interactive performance piece  for players on sliders and
> > switches.  Soundwise it was based almost entirey on scanned synthesis (+
> > some
> > resonant filters).
> > 
> > The sound was synthesized in real time and it was influenced by the
> > actions of
> > the children and computer itself - the pitch changes reflect the
> > temperature
> > changes of the computer's CPU, read at moments of certain switch
> > combinations.
> > Thus the computer performed along the children.
> > The controlling program  was written in C++ and Qt, using Csound API.
> > The idea was to give children an experience that music can be also
> > sound,
> > not
> > just only melody or beat...
> > It was great fun!
> > A video about it is up on https://vimeo.com/43235666
> > If you have more specific questions, please let me know!
> > 
> > greetings,
> > tarmo
> > 
> > 
> > Send bugs reports to the Sourceforge bug tracker
> > 
> >            https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=81968&at
> >            id=564599
> > 
> > Discussions of bugs and features can be posted here
> > To unsubscribe, send email sympa@lists.bath.ac.uk with body "unsubscribe
> > csound"
> 
> Send bugs reports to the Sourceforge bug tracker
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> Discussions of bugs and features can be posted here
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