Creative Transform (CT) sits at the Creative row and Transform column of the PICRAT grid. Below: real Music lessons for KS5 that classify as CT, plus anti-examples that look CT but are not.

Live-coded music composition in Sonic Pi

Year 12 · 200 min · 1 device per student plus headphones

Each student composes a 60-second piece in Sonic Pi by writing live code that generates musical patterns. The composition must use at least three musical structures (e.g. a loop, a probabilistic event, a parameterised melody) defended in a 200-word artist's statement. Students perform live by running code in front of the class.

Tools: Sonic Pi

AI-trained generative composition with critique

Year 13 · 240 min · 1 device per student

Each student trains a small AI model on a chosen corpus of existing music (e.g. Bach chorales, jazz standards, contemporary minimalism) and uses it to generate new compositions. They critique the AI's output, identifying what the model captures well and what it misses, then publish a 90-second composition combining AI-generated and student-composed material with a written commentary.

Interactive sound installation responsive to environment

Year 13 · 240 min · 1 device per student plus optional sensor hardware

Each student builds an interactive sound installation that responds to environmental input (movement, ambient sound, time of day, weather data). The installation is presented in a chosen location for visitors to experience for 60-90 seconds each. Students write a 200-word artist's statement on the relationship between input and sound output.

Tools: p5.js

Lessons that look CT but are not

Useful counter-examples when you are checking your own lesson placement on the PICRAT grid.

This page is one of a growing set of PICRAT examples by cell, subject and key stage. Page maintained by Andy Perryer.