Emerging Musical Sense Making: Constructionism and Collaboration in Computer-Aided Music Composition

• In Event: Poster Session 10
  In Poster Session: Advanced Technologies for Learning Poster Session

Abstract

Research on Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning (CSCL) has largely focused on mathematics and science while little research to date has focused on the arts and particularly music. However, very little is known about how tools to support shared musical performance and composition might foster heightened musical understanding. The current study focuses youth engaged in a collaborative remixing of Beethoven’s Ode To Joy. Early findings suggest that, through collaboration, meaningful discourse around structures and logic in music composition takes place.

Authors

• Michael Downton, Indiana University

• Kylie A. Peppler, Indiana University - Bloomington

• Jeanne Bamberger, Massachusetts Institute of Technology