TamTam

A music and sound exploration application for the OLPC

Preliminary page. This is a condensation of the talk I gave at OLPC in Boston on June 14th 2006.
First a picture of the interface:

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Goals

• Provide children with a culturally-informed environment for making music and sound on the OLPC

• Provide an audio/music experience that is instantly rewarding for a musically naïve user

• Provide a playable musical instrument with its own “sound”

• Provide a dynamically adaptable learning environment that proposes simplicity and welcomes complexity

• Use mesh networking to encourage collaborative music making

• Introduce notions of audio and music programming

• TamTam uses Csound as its audio engine

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People

• Jean Piché
  
• Douglas Eck
  
• Olivier Bélanger
  
• Sean Wood
  
• James Bergstra
  
• Nathanael Couture-Lecaudé