MUSIQUE LAB 2 : A THREE LEVEL APPROACH FOR MUSIC EDUCATION AT SCHOOL
Vincent Puig, Fabrice Guédy, Michel Fingerhut, Fabienne Serrière, Jean Louis Bresson, Olivier Zeller · 2005
Musique Lab 2 is the follow-up development of a software suite, first designed in 1999 with high school music teachers, for interactive music manipulations based on MIDI and currently used in more than 2000 classrooms. This second generation, intended both for high schools and conservatories has been commissioned by French Ministry of Education and French Ministry of Culture. Musique Lab 2 can be approached through three pedagogical strategies according to the teacher: an approach by way of the repertoire using simple annotation and synchronisation tools (ML-Annotation), an approach through interactive sound creation and production (ML-Audio) and an approach based on musical composition (ML-Maquette). 1. MUSIQUE LAB 1 Musique Lab 1 [4] is a set of 6 interactive applications for Mac OS X and Windows which is freely downloadable for French high schools since September 2002 and for which an international edition has been marketed since April 2003. 1.1. Pitch and dynamics This application explores pitch and intensity as evolutional continua and dynamic variations. The interface offers in up to four interactive voices an access to many actions: drawing of the pitch and intensity curves, symmetrical process on the curves, duration, timbre, mixing, controlling, adjustments and results recording.