Children's creative music-making with reflexive interactive technology: adventures in improvising and composing

This title discusses pioneering experiments conducted with young children using a new generation of music software for improvising and composing.

Using artificial intelligence techniques, this software captures the children's musical style and interactively reflects it in its responses.

The book describes the potential of these applications to enhance children's agency and musical identity by reflecting players' musical inputs, storing and creating variations on them.

Set in the broader context of current music education research, it addresses the benefits and challenges of incorporating music technologies in primary and pre-school education.

It is comprised of six main chapters, which cover the creation of children's own music and their musical selves, critical thinking skills and learner agency, musical language development, and emotional intent during creative music-making.