Making Music as Home-Making:

Making Music with Mathematics

Have you ever wondered how to bring music into your mathematics lessons? Music can be a rich context for facilitating mathematical connections. However, for those of us who are not musically inclined, encouraging mathematical connections through music can seem overwhelming. The following tasks are a way to bring music into your classroom with rewarding results. I have used these mathematics tas...

Mobile Music Making

We present a system for collaborative musical creation on mobile wireless networks. The work extends on simple peerto-peer file sharing systems towards ad-hoc mobility and streaming. It extends upon music listening from a passive act to a proactive, participative activity. The system consists of a network based interactive music engine and a portable rendering player. It serves as a platform fo...

Home-Making Group

Sketching music: making music by exploring art

Music is complicated, so we explored how we can make it easier for inexperienced people to engage with it, and improve their understanding of it. In a series of exploratory studies, we asked participants to use a musical tabletop interface to compose music in relation to different forms of art, such as paintings and narrations. We found that (i) discussing extra-musical material in terms of mus...

Interactivity for Mobile Music-Making

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