Music
Introduction
Welcome to the OLPC Music portal. The following information relate to music-related projects associated with the XO, including both software and content.
Getting involved
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.
If you are interested in getting involved with music-related projects of OLPC, take the initiative and include yourself in the list of the people working on similar issues.
Music teams
Music content
Music available in relation to the XOs can be found in a number of formats.
Music curators
Free Music Project
The Free Music Project, sponsored by the 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 freemusic.freeculture.org for details.
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 site for further details.
Tempostand
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: Tempostand.com
Other sources of curated music
- DJ C
- Miss Fairchild
- DJ Spooky / Paul D. Miller
- The Juan Maclean
- Wayne&Wax
- DJ/Rupture -- Maga Bo / Filastine
- Astronaut
- FGV Brazil -- Axial / Luisa Manda Um Beijo
- Tempostand (various groups)
- ApniDhun (various groups)
Spreading the music
Below you can find a list of music that could be included in our libraries. We are willing to find freely licensed copies of this music to be included in the XOs and the school server. Feel free to recommend music, which could be associated with the OLPC project and its educational mission.
- Classical
Western:
- Britten : Young People's Guide to the Orchestra
- Peter and the Wolf : with narration. music is available (us/sr split)
- Saint-Saens : Carnival of the Animals, words by Ogden Nash
- Other:
- Jacque Hibert : Divertissement
- Gershwin : An American in Paris
- Mozart : Eine Kleine Nachtmusik
- Aaron Copeland : El Salon Mexico
- contact @ sony (cf joel & martin)
Indian:
- Stark
- Pop
Music sharing
- Jamendo
Remixed
- DJ Spooky
Music software
Public Csound
- is available for use on the laptop.
- Available Interfaces
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.
More Information on the Csound Server can be found here:
More information on Csound:
- Audio Applications
FMSynth - a basic FM synthesis emulator built using Csound and the Csound Server.
