Amstramgrame: Making Scientific Concepts More Tangible Through Music Technology at School

Romain Michon, Catinca Dumitrascu, Sandrine Chudet, Yann Orlarey, Stéphane Letz, and Dominique Fober

Proceedings of the International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression

• Year: 2021
• Location: Shanghai, China
• Article Number: 60
• DOI: 10.21428/92fbeb44.a84edd3f (Link to paper)
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Abstract:

Amstramgrame is a music technology STEAM (Science Technology Engineering Arts and Mathematics) project aiming at making more tangible abstract scientific concepts through the programming of a Digital Musical Instrument (DMI): the Gramophone. Various custom tools ranging from online programming environments to the Gramophone itself have been developed as part of this project. An innovative method anchored in the reality of the field as well as a wide range of key-turn pedagogical scenarios are also part of the Amtramgrame toolkit. This article presents the tools and the method of Amstramgrame as well as the results of its pilot phase. Future directions along with some insights on the implementation of this kind of project are provided as well.

Citation:

BibTeX Entry:

  @inproceedings{NIME21_60,
 abstract = {Amstramgrame is a music technology STEAM (Science Technology Engineering Arts and Mathematics) project aiming at making more tangible abstract scientific concepts through the programming of a Digital Musical Instrument (DMI): the Gramophone. Various custom tools ranging from online programming environments to the Gramophone itself have been developed as part of this project. An innovative method anchored in the reality of the field as well as a wide range of key-turn pedagogical scenarios are also part of the Amtramgrame toolkit. This article presents the tools and the method of Amstramgrame as well as the results of its pilot phase. Future directions along with some insights on the implementation of this kind of project are provided as well.},
 address = {Shanghai, China},
 articleno = {60},
 author = {Michon, Romain and Dumitrascu, Catinca and Chudet, Sandrine and Orlarey, Yann and Letz, Stéphane and Fober, Dominique},
 booktitle = {Proceedings of the International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression},
 doi = {10.21428/92fbeb44.a84edd3f},
 issn = {2220-4806},
 month = {June},
 presentation-video = {https://youtu.be/KTgl4suQ_Ks},
 title = {Amstramgrame: Making Scientific Concepts More Tangible Through Music Technology at School},
 url = {https://nime.pubpub.org/pub/3zeala6v},
 year = {2021}
}