We hope these experiments inspire you – whether they give you a new perspective on music, make you more curious about math and science, or even make you think of new ways to teach or code. We’re also providing open-source code so that others can build new experiments based on what we’ve started.Įxploring music can help spark curiosity in all kinds of ways. Just like today’s Clara Rockmore doodle, the experiments are all built with the Web Audio API, a freely-accessible, open web standard that lets developers create and manipulate sound right in the browser. Chrome Music Lab is all built for the web, so you can start playing instantly, whether you’re on a tablet, phone, or laptop. You can play with sound, rhythm, melody, and more.

It’s called Chrome Music Lab, and you can check it out at g.co/musiclab. We built a set of experiments that let anyone explore how music works. This year, for Music in Our Schools Month, we wanted to help make learning about music a bit more accessible to everyone by using technology that’s open to everyone: the web. With this experiment you can compare spectrograms of different sounds, or use the mic to see what your own sounds look like.Īll you need to do is open an 'experiment' and play. The Spectrogram experiment turns the instrument or sound into a picture. The Rhythm experiment allows you to build patterns on the grid to build your own rhythms. The Shared Piano is a simple tool that lets you play music together live on the web. The Kandinsky experiment turns anything you draw – lines, circles, triangles, or scribbles – into sound. Others are more complex and can be used by music pupils and teachers for remote music teaching and collaboration (eg: the Shared Piano).įor example, the Song Maker experiment lets you make and share your own songs. Some are simple and very easy to explore with younger children (eg: the Rhythm experiment and Kandinsky experiment).

This is a great set of free online tools (or 'experiments') made by Google, allowing kids - and adults - to explore music in a fun way.

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