Musical Timbre Activity browser game
Hide and Speak Tone bender Game
Sound Waves tone generator user interface
Sound Labs and Activities
Music is a science so much as its an art, however the beauty of the representation of it as a science is often under appreciated in favor explaining music as a creative talent rather an intellectual foresight. Students from the Drexel Music Entertainment Technology (MET) laboratory under the guidance of Dr. Youngmoo E. Kim have been able to show this correlation with a few of their sound based laboratories, below are a few of the labs Sound based labs thatwere implemented at our past DK-12 laboratories.
MUSICAL TIMBRE CAPA ACTIVITY
By Ray Migneco
An Activity that describes Timbre through a browser based game, the students play the game to help recognize the sound of a particular instrument.
HIDE AND SPEAK CAPA ACTIVITY
By Travis Doll
Instructed by Ray Migneco
An Activity where students try learn about acoustics and speech intelligbility from a browser based game that simulates a crowded party, students have to filter through the noise to listen to the sound they want to hear.
Sound Waves CAPA ACTIVITY
Part 1
Part 2
Activities that discuss and explore the properties behind sound; in one activity aspects such as amplitude and frequency is experimented on by students, and in the other the characteristics that were learned previously are then connected to musical instruments to see their effects.
