The Circle of Sound Commented [1]: Consider the background knowledge
required of a participant to understand this title. What
Designers: Joshua Almond and Jacob Meadows
Demonstration Video: https://twitter.com/yoshypoo/status/931025422178975750
Technologies Used:
-Makey Makey: Used to connect the buttons of our project to the computer.
-Scratch: This is the coding we are using in order to connect the makey makey to the
sounds we choose to produce.
-Google Forms: Used to collect data from participants about our learning goals. Will be
acquired by a Laptop entry so the participant does not have to take the time to go to a link on
their phone. We will ask questions like Where you able to create a melody and notate with the
number system of musical notation?
-DAW recordings to program into the Scratch code.
Project Overview:
The experiences that people will have with our project design will include involvement in
easy to access music that people who dont have a background in western music can learn and
have a good time. The observer will notice a colorful blue circle with red and green buttons,
labeled with numbers 1 through 7, each button being a different playable pitch by touch. Other
users will see participants poking at these felt buttons to create and pitch or melody.
Participants will experiment with combination of buttons attempting to make a melody of an
ambient sounding music track, using the numbers to help organize their melody. The primary
prompt given to them will be to create a melody using the buttons and notate it by writing down
the numbers they used in the order of the melody. We will be interacting with participants,
answering any questions they may have, and overseeing and helping with the google forms
assessment. We will also be interacting with participants by asking them to try to create a
simple melody by ear using the controller.
Rationale:
It is a very important creation to our modern society and modern music because not
everyone in our world has the opportunity to indulge into music as much as we do. I also feel
that this project does a good job of showing the creativity of the everyday person, no matter
what their musical background may be. For most of these projects, the extent of practice
musical application is very limited, but seeing all the different ways people can use the controller
could be a good evaluation of the creativity of the human race. Speaking of evaluation, this
project can be good for analyzing the musical creativity of an everyday human, by seeing and
observing how people interact with the controller, or evaluating what the decide to play or
attempt to create with the controller. Numerous technologies, to be introduced in the pages that
title could you give that is 1) evocative of the
experience you have planned and 2) is welcoming to
people with different music backgrounds that may or
may not involved Western Music Theory?
Commented [2]: Be sure to have very specific
questions and to collect meaningful data. You will only
want a handful of questions. How will you provide the
participants with access to this? QR code? Shortened
URL? Have it open on an iPad for participants to use?
Commented [3]: This sentence is very hard to read
and it doesn't give the reader much information beyond
the prompt you were given. Make careful use of the
words you have and be direct and illustrative.
Commented [4]: This described the controller, not the
experience. What will an observer see others doing?
Commented [5]: You will need to do more than this.
Consider prompts to encourage participants to interact
with the controller.You will prompt the participant with
playful games and questions to help them interact with
the controller in a way that helps them make
meaningful gains toward your specific learning goals.
Commented [6]: How? What prompts will they be
given? What will you be doing? Just watching isn't an
option, so consider how you can scaffold the
experience.
Commented [7]: You will need to do more than this.
Consider prompts to encourage participants to interact
with the controller.You will prompt the participant with
playful games and questions to help them interact with
the controller in a way that helps them make
meaningful gains toward your specific learning goals.
Commented [8]: The construction of this as your
opinion makes the statement much weaker than it
could be if you used your reading (since we specifically
read on creativity).
Commented [9]: I'm not certain of this as your
overview does not illustrate how the participants will
engage with their creativity since just doodling isn't ...
Commented [10]: Which projects? This is unclear
Commented [11]: Again, this is unclear. I really have
no clue what you are trying to state, though it does
have a feeling of potential elitism at first blush ...
Commented [12]: The activity can't be an evaluation
of all humankind. Also, because you haven't clearly
articulated what people will do in the overview, the ...
Commented [13]: What is this? Also, it can't be an
evaluation unless you are making it that way.
Remember that evaluation is a measurement of that ...
Commented [14]: Well, this could be an interesting
study on what people do with a new tool, you can't
assess without having prior assessments to compare ...
follow, can support the formative assessment of musical students. (Baurer 2016, pg 133) I feel Commented [15]: You don't set this up and dropping a
this quote can apply very well to our project, being that we can use it to evaluate musical ability. quote does not help a reader know how you are
making sense of this quote or idea. Rather than
quoting, you should speak in your voice and synthesize
ideas.
Commented [16]: There isn't really a way for an
outside reader to know this as you haven't clearly
explained what is going on in your experience.

Learning Goals: Commented [17]: How do these draw on the Virginia

Standards of Learning for Music Technology? I don't
see obvious connections, rather you make very broad
-Participant will become familiar with a custom system of music notation using numbers. and, as such, not assessable goals.
-Participant will incorporate creativity into the interaction with the project to show capability to
create something original.
-Participant will use number notation system to submit a composition of a new, or pre-existing
song.

We will use a google document that participants can choose to do to help us gather data
on personal musical experiences as well as submissions of number notation compositions.We Commented [18]: What data are you collecting? How
will be interacting with participants to also evaluate how people approach and interact with the will if be useful?
controller. The quality of data will help us evaluate the development of musicianship as well as
musical experience.

I think that we will learn to evaluate the development of musicianship by analyzing our
data and observing and helping with our project presentation.We still need to connect the last
two buttons to the computer as well make the project look more aesthetically pleasing. Last
resources I need to seek would be a stand that could be used to suspend the controller or more
tools to make the project look better to the eye like curtains to hide wires or colorful take to hide
the edge of the project. My plan is to schedule time with Jacob Meadows to improve the project
to create a growth in musicianship, as well as create an excellent and fun experience for
participants.

For this project, I have included the rubric below to show you where your current work sits in relation
to expected outcomes. In this way, the rubric is an evaluation whereas the feedback above is an
assessment. Be use both bits of data to assist you in revising your work. Realize that you need to
deeply edit this work.

Facet of the project No Minimal Meets Exceeds

Evidence Evidence Expectations Expectations

Project overview clearly summarizes the 0 1.5 2.3 2.5

experience and answers the questions
clearly.
Thoughtful rationale including useful 0 1.5 2.3 2.5
citation in APA format

2-4 learning goals that are clearly 0 .5 .9 1

articulated and re-interpret/phrase Core
Arts Standards

Provides specific and valid/reliable 0 .5 .9 1

assessments that will chart the
engagement and musical growth of
participants.

Design includes at least the following 0 .5 .9 1

types of technologies: Makey-Makey,
coding, and another tool

Includes a title, designers' names, and 0 .5 .9 1

plan for working/iterating

College-level, proof-read prose There is 0 .5 .9 1

a lot of filler wording here and the writing
lacks clarity. A reader is left without
much idea about what the experience
will look, sound, and feel like.
A demonstration video is included which 0 5 9 10
specifically shows the controller you
designed and how it can be used. The
video looks professional and is filmed in
a professional setting.
You seem to be missing demonstration
of its use.

If we were to use this rubric to evaluate your entire project thus far, your grade would be: 64%.
Remember that this step in the project is a proposal and, thus, acts as a step to provide your
meaningful assessment/feedback information to help you revise.