Creativity in Children's Digital Music Composition
Corey Ford, Nick Bryan-Kinns, and Chris Nash
Proceedings of the International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression
- Year: 2021
- Location: Shanghai, China
- Article Number: 18
- DOI: 10.21428/92fbeb44.e83deee9 (Link to paper)
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Abstract:
Composing is a neglected area of music education. To increase participation, many technologies provide open-ended interfaces to motivate child autodidactic use, drawing influence from Papert’s LOGO philosophy to support children’s learning through play. This paper presents a case study examining which interactions with Codetta, a LOGO-inspired, block-based music platform, supports children’s creativity in music composition. Interaction logs were collected from 20 children and correlated against socially-validated creativity scores. To conclude, we recommend that the transition between low-level edits and high-level processes should be carefully scaffolded.
Citation:
Corey Ford, Nick Bryan-Kinns, and Chris Nash. 2021. Creativity in Children's Digital Music Composition. Proceedings of the International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression. DOI: 10.21428/92fbeb44.e83deee9BibTeX Entry:
@inproceedings{NIME21_18, abstract = {Composing is a neglected area of music education. To increase participation, many technologies provide open-ended interfaces to motivate child autodidactic use, drawing influence from Papert’s LOGO philosophy to support children’s learning through play. This paper presents a case study examining which interactions with Codetta, a LOGO-inspired, block-based music platform, supports children’s creativity in music composition. Interaction logs were collected from 20 children and correlated against socially-validated creativity scores. To conclude, we recommend that the transition between low-level edits and high-level processes should be carefully scaffolded.}, address = {Shanghai, China}, articleno = {18}, author = {Ford, Corey and Bryan-Kinns, Nick and Nash, Chris}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression}, doi = {10.21428/92fbeb44.e83deee9}, issn = {2220-4806}, month = {June}, presentation-video = {https://youtu.be/XpMiDWrxXMU}, title = {Creativity in Children's Digital Music Composition}, url = {https://nime.pubpub.org/pub/ker5w948}, year = {2021} }