Children's Creative Music-Making with Reflexive Interactive Technology

Taylor & Francis

Children's Creative Music-Making with Reflexive Interactive TechnologyAdventures in improvising and composing\nAuthor(s): Victoria Rowe, Angeliki Triantafyllaki, Francois Pachet\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9781138579620, 978-1138579620\nSynopsis\nChildren's Creative Music-Making with Reflexive Interactive Technology discusses pioneering experiments conducted with young children using a new generation of music software for improvising and composing. Using artificial intelligence techniques, this software captures the childrens musical style and interactively reflects it in its responses. The book describes the potential of these applications to enhance childrens agency and musical identity by reflecting players musical inputs, storing and creating variations on them. Set in the broader context of current music education research, it addresses the benefits and challenges of incorporating music technologies in pri.