The tech giant is unmistakably attempting to tackle dozens of projects simultaneously, as another one dubbed Chrome Music Lab just hit the news feed this morning. According to Google, this is a feature that comes to help out in things such as educations – whether we’re talking academic or personal – by employing a series of experiments that allow the users to explore various musical pieces and understand how they work.
But this is not a feature that comes for no reason whatsoever. It has been created as a way to celebrate this year’s Music in Our Schools Month. As a result, Chrome Music Lab was made available and accessible to anyone with an internet connection. The feature was also made to be particularly easy to use and user-friendly, regardless of the age of the user. Very young children, mid-schoolers and adults alike can easily explore the workings of music using a variety of platforms: desktops, tablets and smartphones alike are compatible with the website that hosts the Music Lab.
The Chrome Music Lab consists of 12 different ‘experiments’ that you can play around with, each one depicting a different aspect of music, which you can pretty much figure out from the title of the experiment. The listings so far include Rhythm, Spectrogram, Chords, Sound waves, Arpeggios, Kandinsky, Melody Maker, Voice Spinner, Harmonics, Piano Roll, Oscillators and Strings.
All of the above are made thanks to the collaboration of coders and musicians that made use of the Web Audio API and open source code. The API permits creating and editing music within the browser, while the open source quality offers anyone experienced and willing the freedom to experiment and create their own version of experiments in the Music Lab, for example.
All of the previously submitted experiments make use of colorful animations, clear sounds and very easy to understand illustrations of how sound from various instruments work, how chords work, and even giving you a little freedom in creating some accidental songs while playing with it. Every one of the 12 currently present on the website are cleverly made and intuitive in making the experience as pleasant for the user as possible as it doesn’t let things get too hectic.
This is a great method that teachers and educators could apply in schools to not only give children an easier way of understanding the workings of music but also nurture their creative spirit.
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