Chrome Music Lab
by Google Creative Lab
From the Chrome Music Lab website:
Making Music Learning Accessible to All
Section titled “Making Music Learning Accessible to All”Chrome Music Lab is a web-based portal containing a collection of playful, interactive experiments that make learning music more accessible through hands-on play. Perfect for elementary and middle school classrooms, it allows students to visualize and manipulate the building blocks of music without any software installation or login.
Highlights of Key Experiments
Section titled “Highlights of Key Experiments”- Song Maker: A simple grid-based composer that allows students to write melodies and drum tracks, play back their creations, and share them instantly via custom links.
- Rhythm: An animated sequencer where adorable characters beat drums, woodblocks, and triangles to help students explore subdivisions and patterns.
- Chords: A virtual piano keyboard that displays the harmonic structure of major and minor triads as students click on keys.
- Kandinsky: An artistic experiment that transforms students’ drawings into musical tones, linking visual art directly to sound composition.
- Voice Spinner: An interactive sound editing tool that allows students to record their voice and spin a dial to play it back fast, slow, or in reverse.