What gives the great driving sound to “Another One Bites the Dust” by Queen or “All About That Bass” by Meghan Trainor? The bass riff! The bass line, called a “riff”, is the foundation of your song. It matches the rhyth
So you’ve found us, welcome to Conductive Music! If you’ve come to this page, you’ve either won a ProTrinket from us, or decided to buy one from our wonderful partners Adafruit. If you want to know more about the ProTrinket itself, pleas
Our first round of 2014-2015 workshops is underway, and we have some brilliant reaction videos from our students. Thanks go to St. Angela’s Ursuline School and Plashet School for Girls! We’ll see you again soon for stage 2 of MakeIt.We
Versatility, re-invention and pushing boundaries are the three key ingredients of the contemporary performer, both in the acoustic and digital worlds. As a percussionist, my whole background is based on blurring the distinction between musical inst
It was over a year ago, when Emily and I, on one of our first ventures with Conductive Music, went to Elephand&Castle (South London), to present the embryo of our project. We delivered to a very enthusiastic mixed group, ranging from curious 8 year ol
Here @ConductiveMusic we are very excited because a new baby is in our office – it’s name is Oontz. It’s brand new, open source, and Arduino based, just the way we like to see our technology arrive. Oontz is a button-based MIDI controlle
During Conductive Music events and workshops, we like to use fun & versatile MaKey MaKey boards. They allow us to set up and start making noise right away… as soon as we connect a computer and some conductive things! MaKey MaKey, since it acts s
Here in England, the first term of the new National Curriculum including “coding”, or computer programming, as a standard learning subject is underway. The goal of this new curriculum item is “to ensure that all pupils can understand and
Conductive Music had a demo table and published a paper at NIME 2014 in Goldsmith’s, London. We met lots of cool people and had some really fascinating conversations during our demo table session! It was good to catch up with friends of the project
Conductive Music presented a paper during the Improvisation and Digital Arts Festival at Kingston University, focusing on the successful outcomes and lessons learned from our project during the 2013-2014 school year. We also gave a performance and lecture
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