Free browser experiments for exploring rhythm, melody, pitch and sound. No accounts or logins, so it works well with young children.
Creative Amplify
Each child composes an eight-bar melody in Song Maker in which the second phrase answers the first, playing it back and changing notes until the answer sounds finished.
Each child draws lines and shapes in Chrome Music Lab's Kandinsky, presses play to hear their picture as music, then changes the drawing to make it sound like rain or a stomping giant.
Passive Transform
Grade 7 watch Chrome Music Lab's Spectrogram draw the teacher's voice reading two lines of Owen's 'Anthem for Doomed Youth', one showing as short broken patches of sound and the other as long drawn-out ones.
The teacher plays a swanee whistle, chime bars and a drum into Chrome Music Lab's Spectrogram, and the class watches the sounds appear on the board as rising, falling and smudged shapes.
This page is one of a growing set of PICRAT examples by cell, subject and grade. Page maintained by Andy Perryer.