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Collaborative Creation with Soundcool for Socially Distanced Education
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Soundcool is a flexible, modular computer music software system created for music education. Moreover, Soundcool is an educational approach that embraces collaboration and discovery in which the teacher serves as a mentor for project-based learning. To enable collaboration, Soundcool was designed from the beginning to allow individual modules to be controlled over WiFi using smartphone and tablet apps. This collaborative feature has enabled network-based performance over long distances. In particular, the recent demand for social distancing motivated further explorations to use Soundcool for distance education and to enable young musicians to perform together in a creative way. We describe the educational approach of Soundcool, experience with network performances with children, and future plans for a web-based social-network-inspired collaborative music creation system.
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Interactive computer-based music systems form a rich area for the exploration of collaborative systems where sensors play an active role and are important to the design process. The Soundcool system is a collaborative and educational system for sound and music creation as well as multimedia scenographic projects, allowing students to produce and modify sounds and images with sensors, smartphones and tablets in real time. As a real-time collaborative performance system, each performance is a unique creation. In a comprehensive educational project, Soundcool is used to extend the sounds of traditional orchestral instruments and opera singers with electronics. A multidisciplinary international team participates, resulting in different performances of the collaborative multimedia opera The Mother of Fishes in countries such as Spain, Romania, Mexico and the USA.
Soundcool is a free system for musical, sound and visual collaborative creation through mobile phones, tablets and other interfaces developed by the Performing Arts and Technology Group (PerformingARTech) of the Universitat Politècnica de València (UPV) with the collaboration of Carnegie Mellon University. The PerformingARTech group is a multidisciplinary team of researchers with artistic and technical expertise led by Dr. Sastre, see team at http://soundcool.org.
This paper describes Soundcool from its inception up to the premiere of the Soundcool opera The Mother Fishes in the US in February 2020: educational applications, professional applications and applications for functional diversity, awards and latest news.
El docente universitario está obligado a mutarse hacia un perfil tecno-digital en el que integre sus competencias con las digitales. Los que no se adapten serán analfabetos funcionales y tenderán a la extinción. Las aptitudes digitales serán imprescindibles para la docencia futura porque nuestros jóvenes ya son digitales.
És innegable l'impacte que Internet ha tingut i està tenint en la generació i en l'impuls de xarxes socials. Els educadors i les institucions educatives, i de forma especial les universitats, no podem ser aliens a aquest fenomen. I per això RUSC hagi decidit dedicar un monogràfic que a la cultura digital i a les pràctiques creatives en educació. The impact that the Internet has had, and is still having on creating and furthering social networks is indisputable. Educators and educational institutions, particularly universities, cannot remain oblivious to this phenomenon. For this reason, at RUSC, we have decided to dedicate a monographic to digital culture and creative practices in education. Es innegable el impacto que Internet ha tenido y está teniendo en la generación y en el impulso de las redes sociales. Los educadores y las instituciones educativas, y de forma especial las universidades, no podemos estar ajenos a este fenómeno. De ahí que RUSC haya decidido dedicar un monográfico a la cultura digital y a las prácticas creativas en educación.
This article presents a free framework for collaborative creation of interactive and experimental computer music called Soundcool. It is designed to fill a gap between rigid ready-to-use applications and flexible programming languages. The system offers easy-to-use elements for generating and processing sound, much like ready-made applications, but it enables flexible configuration and control, more like programming languages. The system runs on personal computers with an option for control via smartphones, tablets, and other devices using the Open Sound Control (OSC) protocol. Originally developed to support a new music curriculum, Soundcool is being used at different educational institutions in Spain, Portugal, Italy, and Romania through EU-funded Erasmus+ projects. In this article, we present our system and showcase three different scenarios as examples of how our system meets its objectives as an easy-to-use, versatile, and creative tool.