Posts tagged ‘music’
Scratch
I recently went to Scratch@MIT, a conference to reimagine, rethink, and remix ideas about learning and teaching with Scratch. I was blown away by Scratch and its community of creative thinkers.
Scratch is a programming language that makes it easy to create your own interactive stories, animations, games, music, and art — and share your creations on the web.
Here is a link to download Scratch. I will be making and playing with Scratch projects online. You to can add your projects to the museum gallery on Scratch’s website and share with other friends of the museum.
Paul
Hooray for creativity! Three cheers for the Curiosity Lab!
Jeff Schreckengost with one of his guitars
I’ve been interested (obsessed may be a more appropriate word) in guitars – their design and the sounds they make for the past 30 years — and have always had the desire to create my very own music-making tools.
I tinkered a bit with old thrift store instruments, trying to find various ways to improve or alter them. I learned many things by trial and error and had a lot of fun along the way.
My goal is to create functional works of art from found objects; It’s a recycling mission of sorts. I may reconfigure existing instruments or build everything from scratch using reclaimed hardwoods. When someone picks up one of my instruments, they’re often shocked and amused that what they’re holding may have been a dining room table, part of a barn floor or a door to a church.
I’m really pleased to have a few of my instruments on display in the Curiosity Lab and hope they inspire others to make their very own imaginative musical tools.
To see some examples of the things i make, visit http://jschreckengost.wordpress.com/2010/03/05/instruments/ or drop by the Curiosity Lab and see them in person while you create your own one of a kind instrument.
Jeff
Children's Museum of Pittsburgh
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