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:

BibTeX 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}
}