Creativity in children's digital music composition

Ford, Corey; Bryan-Kinns, Nick; Nash, Chris

Abstract

Composing is a neglected area of music education. To increase participation, many technologies provide open-ended interfaces to motivate child autodidactic use, drawing influence from Papert’s LOGO philosophy to support children’s learning through play. This paper presents a case study examining which interactions with Codetta, a LOGO-inspired, block-based music platform, supports children’s creativity in music composition. Interaction logs were collected from 20 children and correlated against socially-validated creativity scores. To conclude, we recommend that the transition between low-level edits and high-level processes should be carefully scaffolded.

• Presentation Conference Type: Conference Paper (published)
• Conference Name: New Interfaces for Musical Expression (NIME)
• Start Date: Jun 15, 2021
• End Date: Jun 18, 2021
• Acceptance Date: Mar 19, 2021
• Online Publication Date: Apr 29, 2021
• Publication Date: Apr 29, 2021
• Deposit Date: May 3, 2021
• Publicly Available Date: May 4, 2021
• Book Title: Proceedings of the International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression (NIME)
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.21428/92fbeb44.e83deee9
• Keywords: Empirical studies, creativity, consensual assessment, music composition, music education, block-based programming, interaction data, child-computer interaction
• Public URL: https://uwe-repository.worktribe.com/output/7336893
• Additional Information: Based on Corey Ford's MRes Computer Science master's thesis, supervised by Dr Chris Nash.