Investigating the fields of everyday music discovering, this analog player rethinks the digital access of “Les Chineurs”, an archive accumulated over the last 5 years by an amateur community that exchanges rare or forgotten musical works across social networks.

The online community, which shares links from differents online music platform (eg. Youtube, Soundcloud or Bandcamp) to Facebook, currently faces an interface challenge. Therefore, design principles have been developed to deal with sorting issues, giving the possibility of going back in time via a simple interface and, among other features, preventing the mortality of musical piece’s URLs by detecting and repairing broken links.

Inspired by eurythmics, PG.01 explores new types of interaction and experience in music learning for young children, in school or at home. Through an iterative process of research, observation, prototyping and user testing a series of musical instruments and tools were developed.

In association the Jacques-Dalcroze Institute, the focus was on identifying new interactions in music education through usability and materiality. Thinking of a new ecosystem without changing all teaching and learning habits: combining traditional practices (such as paper assignments and already present artefacts) with more encouraging and playful interactions through digital technologies.

Body Synth is a web platform-installation that generates a musical sequence by capturing the body positions and movements of the performer. Facial coordinates are used to create a melody. The position of the limbs allows to set the different volumes and effects. There is no limit to the number of participating musicians, as long as they are in the camera's scope.

Based on the machine learning principle and relying on the ML5.js library, this device requires only the native webcam of a computer, tablet or mobile as well as a web server. After an in-situ introduction, an online version is planned in the next months.