It's an animated sequencer where they create tunes by tapping on dancing animals: accessible, but clever too.
The main mode gets them to trace their fingers on the touchscreen to create tunes, but there are also 140 challenges to flex their nascent music-making muscles.
Along with recorded music from other eras, the musician samples music by New York schoolchildren to create tunes, which he has written and will perform tomorrow at 2 p.m. and Sunday at 3 p.m. at the Brooklyn Academy of Music Harvey Theater, 651 Fulton Street.
Tesla Boy is a Russian synth-pop group that leans heavily on '80s trappings from Echo and The Bunny Men to Prince, but that doesn't mean they can't create tunes that lend themselves exceptionally to house music too.
There were exactly two elements -- ads of various lengths featuring a marching band to the created tune of "I'm feeling good about America," and ads featuring citizens of Georgia speaking to the camera about their unhappiness with their governor, Democratic presidential candidate Jimmy Carter.
Beginning in August, he started creating tunes with the goal of completing 100 in a month.
His almost 3,000 songs, 30 Broadway shows and 17 Hollywood musicals amounted to a unique testament to a talent for creating tunes and lyrics that millions of people in several generations could identify with.
As is illustrated by the "Bus" sentence in Fig. 5a, b, the first part up to the prenuclear accent was left almost unchanged in both created tunes.
The Academy Award nominated original score was composed by Lalo Schifrin, who created tunes with a background in popular music and jazz.
There's also the case of Miike Snow, the Swedish-American trio whose members go back and forth between making their own music and creating tunes for the likes of Bruno Mars and Katy Perry.
