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Welcome to the OLPC Music portal.

Our mission is to build a strong community of people interested in working on music-related projects associated with the XOs, including content, software and hardware. Projects related to music education are always welcome to the extent they can accommodate our goal to serve the children of the world and provide them with means to improve their skills in various fields. The preservation of the national heritage and culture, an inextricable part of which is music, is important to us and, definitely, a field, in which we are interested. There are no restrictions to what the origins of the music projects can be. A local grassroots undertaking, a student group project, a pilot implementation, a global community creation, individual efforts to make music available to more people and to assist people express themselves through music. Education knows no borders or limitations, the same with music.

Examples

The Musopen intro to music is a good example of a collection. (The bundle for that collection is: File:Music-intro-1.xol.)

The Isabella Stewart Gardner museum podcast series is also being packaged as individual downloadable collections.

Community

We are always interested in getting in touch and collaborating with people who share our passion with music. There are no particular requirements for participating in our project. Your inclination to music and your desire to learn more and share your knowledge make you a perfect contributor to our cause. Teaching and learning are interdependent.

If you are interested in contributing to our mission and in sharing more innovative ideas about with us, you can learn more information on the Library mailing list (http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/library). So, if you are interested in joining the conversation, simply join the list and introduce yourself.

Music projects

Initially, the Music projects can take three major forms, relating to content, software or hardware

Music content

Our interest in that field is mainly focused on finding partners, who are willing to donate music content appropriate for the music education of the receivers of the XOs - children all around the world. For that reason, music content can have the form of audio files, of text documents containing music sheets, and of text documents related to music theory. The help of music curators in that case is very important to us. More information about projects related to Music content can be found here.

Music software

We are also focused on providing software, which could be used by the XO users, in order to express their musical skills and create their own music. It is important at this point to let them preserve their musical culture, but also give them the opportunity to express themselves creatively. Participants of such efforts can be found here, at the music software section.

Music hardware

The XO users should also be given the opportunity to have at their disposal hardware and peripherals which they could use in innovative ways, so as to make the most of their learning experience and travel in imaginary musical highways. We are currently calling for relevant projects and people who would like to participate in the construction of such hardware.

The Landfill Harmonic

All I'm asking is that you watch the first 20 seconds... then you'll be hooked: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fXynrsrTKbI

Music Learning Theory

Edwin Gordon has developed an interesting theory about the psychology of music education. He conjectures that music is best learned by developing audiation ability. It seems like at least the discrimination learning part of his skill learning sequence could be delivered as some kind of educational game activity. In Gordon's book, "Learning Sequence and Patterns in Music," he catalogs tonal and rhythmic patterns in an empirically derived sequence from easy to hard.

Getting Involved

If you are interested in assisting us with our mission, we would be grateful for your help in whatever way, even by just providing us information about related projects about which you have heard. We need people from all disciplines, whether or not they have music education background. Do not hesitate to contact Andriani for more information on our attempt to make music a tool of communication and expression for the children of the world.

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+<div style="float:right; border:0px solid #eff; margin: 10px 0px 10px 30px;">[[Image:Xo-music.svg|60|XO Music]] </div>
-__TOC__
+Welcome to the OLPC '''Music portal'''.
-</div>
-There are many sources of clips and music in suitable licenses and formats for the laptop libraries.
+Our mission is to build a strong community of people interested in working on music-related projects associated with the XOs, including content, software and hardware. Projects related to music education are always welcome to the extent they can accommodate our goal to serve the children of the world and provide them with means to improve their skills in various fields. The preservation of the national heritage and culture, an inextricable part of which is music, is important to us and, definitely, a field, in which we are interested. There are no restrictions to what the origins of the music projects can be. A local grassroots undertaking, a student group project, a pilot implementation, a global community creation, individual efforts to make music available to more people and to assist people express themselves through music. Education knows no borders or limitations, the same with music.
-== Music projects and activities ==
-<p>Public Csound is available for use on the laptop.</p>
+== Examples ==
-<p><b>Available Interfaces</b></p>
+The [http://dev.laptop.org/~sj/music-intro/ Musopen intro to music] is a good example of a collection.
-<p>There are a variety of interfaces to Csound.  There is a C based API, a Python API and a Csound Server that currently allows for communication via TCP/IP.  The Csound Server is the recommended method for interacting with Csound on the XO.  Csound can also be run from the command-line. </p>
+(The bundle for that collection is: [[Image:Music-intro-1.xol‎|Music-intro-1.xol‎]].)
+The Isabella Stewart Gardner museum podcast series is also being packaged as individual downloadable collections.
-<p>More Information on the Csound Server can be found here:</p>
-<p>http://rhythmicdesign.com/CsoundXO/</p>
-<p>Sources:</p>
-<p>http://dev.laptop.org/git?p=projects/csoundserver;a=tree</p>
+<div style="float:right">
-<p>More information on Csound:</p>
+__TOC__
-<p>http://www.csounds.com/</p>
+</div>
-<p><b>Audio Applications</b></p>
-<p><i>FMSynth</i> - a basic FM synthesis emulator built using Csound and the Csound Server.</p>
+== Community ==
-<p>Sources:</p>
-<p>http://dev.laptop.org/git?p=projects/olpcmusic;a=tree</p>
+We are always interested in getting in touch and collaborating with people who share our passion with music.  There are no particular requirements for participating in our project. Your inclination to music and your desire to learn more and share your knowledge make you a perfect contributor to our cause. Teaching and learning are interdependent.
-== Groups curating free music ==
-=== Free Music Project ===
-The ''Free Music Project'', sponsored by the [http://freeculture.org Free Culture society], is putting together a collection of iconic music from cultures and genres around the world.  Their initial target is the OLPC audience of children and teachers; see [http://freemusic.freeculture.org freemusic.freeculture.org] for details.
+If you are interested in contributing to our mission and in sharing more innovative ideas about with us, you can learn more information on the Library mailing list (http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/library). So, if you are interested in joining the conversation, simply join the list and introduce yourself.
-This group is working with Antenna Alliance and [[Jamendo]] to curate global collections for children.
-=== Antenna Alliance ===
-The [[Antenna Alliance]] is helping produce and record free music by offering free recording space and technical support to groups that record freely licensed music.  See their [http://www.antalliance.org site] for further details.
-=== Tempostand ===
+== Music projects ==
-TempoStand is a group testing out using CC-BY-SA music for all of their remixes and as backgrounds for other productions, out of India.  All the music on their site is cc-by-sa: [http://tempostand.com/ Tempostand.com]
+Initially, the Music projects can take three major forms, relating to content, software or hardware
-===Sources of Curated Music===
-DJ C
-Miss Fairchild
-DJ Spooky / Paul D. Miller
-The Juan Maclean
-Wayne&Wax
-DJ/Rupture
-Maga Bo
-[http://www.tempostand.com Tempostand] (various groups)
-[http://www.apnidhun.com ApniDhun] (various groups)
+=== [[Music/Music content|Music content]] ===
+Our interest in that field is mainly focused on finding partners, who are willing to donate music content appropriate for the music education of the receivers of the XOs - children all around the world. For that reason, music content can have the form of audio files, of text documents containing music sheets, and of text documents related to music theory.
-== Sources of free music by format ==
+The help of [[Music/Music curators|music curators]] in that case is very important to us.
+More information about projects related to Music content can be found [[Music/Music content|here]].
+=== [[Music/Music software|Music software]] ===
-===Midi===
-Before computers got big enough and fast enough to handle real-time multi-track sound recording and playback, but small enough to put into synthesizers, MIDI (Musical Instrument Digital Interface) made it possible to encode music as a low data rate stream of commands (to select instruments, for example) and events such as note on, note off, pitch bend, and others. MIDI was originally most suited to keyboards and guitars, where a string is activated by striking or picking, and then the sound evolves without any further intervention until it is cut off by dampers or releasing the string. Later additions to MIDI made it usable for string and wind instruments, by sending a stream of loudness commands. However, the wide range of timbre of an acoustic instrument could not be duplicated. MIDI has considerable advantages for students. For example, the tempo of a piece can be changed without changing pitches or expression. Any track can be silenced to create a do-it-yourself equivalent of Music Minus One, where the student plays the missing track to a complete accompaniment.
+We are also focused on providing software, which could be used by the XO users, in order to express their musical skills and create their own music. It is important at this point to let them preserve their musical culture, but also give them the opportunity to express themselves creatively. Participants of such efforts can be found here, at the [[Music/Music software|music software]] section.
-Although MIDIs are no longer the center of electronic musicmaking, there are many MIDI files still available on the Net, and a variety of Free Software for recording, playing, and editing MIDI files, and converting them to other formats.
+=== [[Music/Music hardware|Music hardware]] ===
-* [http://www.musicrobot.com/ MIDI file search engine]
+The XO users should also be given the opportunity to have at their disposal hardware and peripherals which they could use in innovative ways, so as to make the most of their learning experience and travel in imaginary musical highways. We are currently calling for relevant projects and people who would like to participate in the construction of such hardware.
-* [http://www.mididb.com/ MIDI DataBase]  Rock   Pop   Themes   Rap    Dance   Punk   Blues   Country   MIDI Search
+==== The Landfill Harmonic ====
-* [http://www.classicalarchives.com/  The Classical Archives] MIDIs and some MP3s
+All I'm asking is that you watch the first 20 seconds... then you'll be hooked: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fXynrsrTKbI
+=== [[Music Learning Theory]] ===
-etc. etc. Google for more
+[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edwin_Gordon Edwin Gordon] has developed an interesting theory about the psychology of music education. He conjectures that music is best learned by developing [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Audiation audiation] ability. It seems like at least the [http://www.giml.org/mlt_lsa_sls.php discrimination learning] part of his skill learning sequence could be delivered as some kind of educational game activity. In Gordon's book, "Learning Sequence and Patterns in Music," he catalogs tonal and rhythmic patterns in an empirically derived sequence from easy to hard.
-===Sound files===
+== Getting Involved ==
-There are numerous [[File formats|formats for sound files]], including .wav, .mp3, and ogg Vorbis. The MP3 format is the most widely used for sound and music. Since it is encumbered by patents, many Free Software sound programs use the Free ogg Vorbis format instead. Among the well-known sources for MP3 files are iTunes and e-music. The [http://www.vorbis.com Vorbis.com] Web site has a [http://www.vorbis.com/music_links/ page of links] to sources of free files in ogg format.
+If you are interested in assisting us with our mission, we would be grateful for your help in whatever way, even by just providing us information about related projects about which you have heard. We need people from all disciplines, whether or not they have music education background. Do not hesitate to contact [[User:Aferti|Andriani]] for more information on our attempt to make music a tool of communication and expression for the children of the world.
-===Sheet Music===
+=== See also: ===
-The Free Software application for creating musical scores and printing sheet music is Lilypond. There are [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Music_OCR music OCR programs for capturing music from scanned pages and converting to MIDI or other formats, and utilities to convert between MID and several score formats. The process generally requires manual editing, since music notation is complex, and can be difficult to interpret and to lay out in a pleasing as well as functional manner.
+* [[Free Music Project]]
+* [[Jamendo]]
-* [http://icking-music-archive.org/oth_mus_archives.php Directory of music score sites]
 [[Category:Music]]