Building Synthesizers

We had our first teen program of the summer! The Rhode Island Computer Museum folks came over with Raspberry Pi Computers - they fit in the palm of your hand.

The kids hooked them up to monitors and started jamming! They learned some preliminary coding and finished out the day by playing Frère Jacques, which on sheet music looks like this:

And when played by computer looks like this:

2. times do

play_pattern [60, 62, 64, 60]

end

2. times do

play_pattern [64, 65, 67]

end

2. times do

play_pattern [67, 69, 67, 65, 64, 60]

end

2.times do

play_pattern [60, 67, 60]

end

There's still plenty more to come, so stay tuned for more updates from summer reading.