Robert Marmaduke

EDU057000 EDUCATION / Arts in Education

Take student musical and coding skills to a higher plane!

Robert A. Marmaduke and Andre N. Marmaduke present a remarkable update to the original Atari voice synthesizer codec by Mark Barton, building on reverse-engineering work of Sebastian Macke, to create a new workbook for Computational Musicology, based on using MicroPython programming language for the BBC micro:bit chipset.

They explore classroom activities to facilitate effective group work, introduce music coding at a young age, then provide workable examples of code scripts for a variety of music and speech synthesis transcribed from popular song samples. Students learn how to code their own music soundtrack and animated music video for YouTube, and even upload their speech, song and rap mp3s to popular Scratch3 and mBlock5 programs.