Orla Huges the animal iPad orchestra

Facilitates musical play between parent and child in advance of music therapy sessions.

This is like a toy as there is free play.

The target child is between 3-5. It helps parents and children bond. Kids have familiarity with iPads. MobMuPlat is an iPad tool. This is free and build ui for pd apps on ios and android.

It seems to be an OSC app.

Her project is a great example of an app built for devices. She tested it by taking it to a patent and child group.

Users did not know what a tuba looked like, so whee changed the ui to show pictures of the instruments.

Q. This lecturer has a bee in his bonnet about sampling be synthesis… Will the use of samples help get kids interested in real instruments? This is one of the great challenges of our time.

A. She thought about the iPad as an instrument in its own right.

Q. Would this work for children and people in extreme old age?

A. Let’s try it out!

Q. How long did this take to develop?

A. For months.

Q. This is a non idiomatic use of pd!

A. Yes.

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Charles Céleste Hutchins

Supercolliding since 2003

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