Progressive Wednesday

Yes to Music, No to Muzak: Play

Play:

Music is good for the soul. If you're at work, take a few minutes to have some music fun. If you're home with your kids, show them how they can make music.

• Let your kids play music online with Creating Music, which allows children to, in essence, draw and play with music. They can start to understand notation and rhythm, and, it seems to us, opens up a chance to see what kind of music/instument a child might be interested in learning how to play.
• You deserve some fun with tunes too, so point your browser over to Frédéric Durieu's Pâte à Son, a “sound toy to create musical compositions and play with sound– (we couldn't have said it better ourselves). To describe this flash-based website is to sell it pretty short, but we will say that it's like nothing we've ever seen on that thing the kids call “the Internet.– And we mean this in a good way. Not in a video-of-a-donkey-biting-the-head-off-a-turkey kind of way. A good way. Be forewarned: it's kind of addictive. For more cool interactive flash experiments, head over to the Le Ciel Est Bleu homepage.

Pleasure can be progressive, and nothing proves this more than music, because it’s a chance for anyone of any age to discover what it means for a heart and mind to play.

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