A free live-coding music tool. Students write code that plays and changes music while it runs.
Creative Transform
Students taking the sound design role write a Sonic Pi program that generates the underscore for their group's devised piece as it runs, and change it live in response to the actors in each run.
Students compose a short piece in Sonic Pi from live loops, chance events and a melody built from a variable, then perform it by changing the code while it plays.
Students count note-to-note moves in Bach chorale melodies to build a simple statistical model, code it in Sonic Pi to generate new melodies, and critique what it captures and misses.
Passive Transform
The teacher plays a Sonic Pi sonification of the 1665 London Bills of Mortality, one bar per week and one click for every hundred plague deaths, and the class listens to the epidemic build and fade before reading Pepys.
The teacher plays a Sonic Pi piece in which every British and German dreadnought entering service from 1906 to August 1914 sounds as a bell, and Grade 8 judge what the naval race looked like from Britain in 1909.
This page is one of a growing set of PICRAT examples by cell, subject and grade. Page maintained by Andy Perryer.