Sonic Pi
With funding from the Raspberry Pi Foundation, this project developed an experimental school curriculum for teaching programming through the medium of digital music. Using the Raspberry Pi as a standalone music synthesis engine, students can connect a keyboard and screen to define their own programs expressing musical structure. In the process, they acquire a range of fundamental computer science concepts and basic programming skills. Curriculum development and a pilot series of lessons were created in collaboration with a school in a low-income area of East London.
Project leader:
Linked Crucible projects:
improcess - Ian Cross, Julio d'Escrivan, Richard Hoadley, Tom Hall, Nicholas Cook, Simon Peyton Jones, Tim Regan, Chris Nash, Jenny Judge, Nick Collins
Sonic Pi Live and Coding - Rachel Drury, Daniel Brine, Pam Burnard, Michelle Brace, Franzi Florack, Michael Corley, Steph Hogger, Martin Russell, Matthew Gunn, Juneau Projects, Pop-Pi video artists, Ben, other teachers
Defining Pi - Rachel Drury, Nicola Buckley, Gareth Bell-Jones, Chooc Ly Tan, Kate Owens, Rob Smith, Richard Healy
Computer Lab Advisors:
Raspberry Pi Foundation
Eben Upton, Liz Upton, Philip Colligan, Lance Howarth, Carrie Anne Philbin, Alex Bradbury, Jack Lang, Andy Hopper, Alan Mycroft, David Cleeveley, Alan Mycroft, Robert Mullins
- Other funders and donors
AHRC, NESTA, Arts Council of England, Pi-Hut, Moog
Performance collaborators
- Ben
- Jonathan Graham
- Afrodita Nikolova
- Organ: Alex Coplan
- Piano:
Research communities
Dagstuhl seminar on Learning in Live Coding - Alex McLean, Julian Rohrhuber, Alan Blackwell, James Noble
AHRC Live Coding Research Network - Alex McLean and Thor Magnusson
The TOPLAP manifesto authors, including Alex McLean, Nick Collins, Julian Rohrhuber and others
Students who have worked with Sonic Pi in the Computer Lab
Giovanna Dimitri, Alexander Simpson, Emily Fox, Biko Agozino, Karolis Dziedzelis, [[Ruairi Dorrity], Mona Niknafs, Janie Sinclair, Alistair Stead
