University of Massachusetts Lowell
Depts. of Music and Computer Science

Computational Thinking through Computing and Music

an interdisciplinary NSF TUES project

Workshop Testamonial Found Sounds Demo Computational Thinking in Performamatics Live Coding Demo Live Coding Demo IchiBoard Demo

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Presentation Slides   Top

Teaching Computing and Music *Together*
Adam Mickiewicz University
Poznań, Poland, May 17, 2012

Teaching Artsy Types to Think Like Geeks and Vice Versa  (reprise)
Georgia Tech Graphics, Visualization and Usability (GVU) Group
Atlanta, GA, December 8, 2011

  • PowerPoint Slides (PDF file)

Teaching Artsy Types to Think Like Geeks and Vice Versa
Georgia Tech Center for Music Technology (CMT) Group
Atlanta, GA, October 2011


Materials from Conference Workshops   Top

for materials used in our TUES workshops, please click here

Making Music with Scratch Workshop
Scratch@MIT 2012, MIT Media Lab
Cambridge, MA, July 27, 2012

Scratch Day
Brisbane, Australia, May 19, 2012

Scratch Workshop
Association for Technology in Music Instruction (ATMI)
Richmond, VA, October 2011

Making Music with Scratch Workshop
Association for Computing Machinery Special Interest Group in Computer Science Education Technical Symposium (ACM SIGCSE)
Dallas, TX, March 2011

Making Music with Scratch Workshop
Scratch@MIT 2010, MIT Media Lab
Cambridge, MA, August 13, 2010


Videos  (on YouTube and elsewhere)   Top

Computational Thinking in Performamatics and
Found Sound Project Explanation and Examples, July 1, 2012

  • Created by Prof. Gena Greher
  • Premiered at ITiCSE 2012, Haifa, Israel, July 4, 2012, and ISME 2012, Thessaloniki, Greece, July 16, 2012

Movement 1 – Pärt, December 9, 2011

  • Live coding composition and performance by Prof. Alex Ruthmann
  • Published in Computer Music Journal 35(4):127-128, DVD Track 17
  • Inspired by the musical organization of Arvo Pärt’s Stabat Mater and a live coding performance by Andrew Sorensen within his Impromptu software
  • Minor pentatonic solo layer was performed live over the drone using an IchiBoard sensor interface

Teaching Artsy Types to Think Like Geeks and Vice Versa, December 8, 2011

  • Presentation by Jesse Heines at Georgia Tech
  • Introduction by Mark Guzdial
  • Commentary by Mark Guzdial in his Computing Education blog

Live Coding & IchiBoard-Enhanced Performance, July 22, 2011

  • UMass Lowell Band Camp
  • Composed and performed by students Amy & Katy

Pärt-Inspired Musical Live Coding Etude in Scratch, April 15, 2011

  • Short musical live coding example using MIT’s Scratch software and an IchiBoard
  • A minor pentatonic improvisation over a drone bass
  • Code and live performance by Alex Ruthmann

Musical Live Coding & Improv Performance using Scratch at the MIT Media Lab, July 13, 2010

  • A musical live coding and IchiBoard sensor board improvisation duet performance of “Scratch Etude — Pärt”
  • Musical live coding by Alex Ruthmann, UMass Lowell
  • IchiBoard improvisations by Eric Rosenbaum, MIT Media Lab

Making Music with MIT’s Scratch, an Ichiboard, and Sensors, April 29, 2010

  • Composed and performed by Jeremy Murray and Nicole Dwyer
    • With special help from Kevin Webb as the “conductive human”
  • Spring 2010 Sound Thinking Project Exhibition
  • 119 Gallery, Lowell, MA


Sound Thinking Course Website   Top

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