Minces, Victor, Khalil, Alexander, Oved, Iris, Challen, Cate, & Chiba, Andrea(2016)Listening to Waves: Using Computer Tools to Learn Science Through Making Music.InGomez Chova, L., Lopez Martínez, A., & Candel Torres, I. (Eds.) EDULEARN16 Proceedings: 8th International Conference on Education and New Learning Technologies.IATED Academy, Spain, pp. 3844-3852.
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In this work we detail our experience carrying out an outreach project across several schools in the greater San Diego Area. Our program is oriented at leveraging the deep interest that society has in music in order to teach students the basics of signal processing and the science of waves and vibrations. Our program is oriented at creating a hands-on and creative learning experience. We detail various aspects of our lesson plan and a way to integrate the lessons within regular school activities.
In recent years, the integration of arts as a means of teaching subjects in the STEM fields (STEAM=STEM+ART) has gathered much traction. Often STEAM is taken as doing art about science. This approach can be very useful since a clearly transmitted message, such as one that only through art can be achieved, might prove fundamental for a deep understanding of a scientific concept. However, this approach also risks establishing a hard division between science as a message and art as a carrier, “a scientist” or “an artist”, science as a glorified object and its depiction through art. For those of us who have explored the paths of both art and science, this hard division does not exist. We do science because we find beauty in it, a beauty that we can explore and “bring out” just as much as we do when we are painting or playing music. We also understand that there is science in art, and we need experimentation, research, and a deep understanding of our artistic media, to create beauty or transmit a message. This is well exemplified in the making of music and in particular in the making of sounds, since sound is created through vibrating materials and composed of waves.
In our educational program the students learn the hidden and ubiquitous world of waves through the making and analysis of music and sound. For this they use computer tools to record, visualize, manipulate, and create sounds, thus learning the basics of wave theory and signal processing. Integrating science and arts, the students design creative musical instruments or sound installations and analyze their acoustic properties. They explore how sound is propagated through the environment and represented in the brain. At the end of this program the installations thus created, are presented in a public art-science-show. In this way, not only the participants of the program but also the whole community can appreciate the richness of the physical world embedded in music. Our goal is that, through this program, the community will not only learn about vibrations and music, but will also understand that the rules of nature are not restricted to outer space or micro-organisms but pervade all that we know and love.
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| Measurements or Duration: | 9 pages |
| DOI: | 10.21125/edulearn.2016.1919 |
| ISBN: | 978-84-608-8860-4 |
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FAQs
Sound waves are a type of mechanical wave, meaning they require a medium to travel through. Sound waves are created by vibrating objects, such as a speaker, and travel through the air as a longitudinal wave.
In what materials can a sound wave travel select all correct answers? ›
Final Answer: - Sound can travel through Solids, Liquids and Gases Only.
What is the sound answer? ›
Sound is defined as vibrations that travel through the air or another medium as an audible mechanical wave. It is produced from a vibrating body. The vibrating body causes the medium (water, air, etc.) around it to vibrate thus producing sound.
How do you make a sound wave in science? ›
Tap on the side of a glass of water, and you create sound waves. If the glass is full of water, the sound wave gets slowed traveling through the water, and the pitch of the sound is lower. If the glass has less water in it, the wave isn't slowed down as much, and so it has a higher pitch.
What are music waves called? ›
Sound waves are longitudinal waves.
What are sound waves in science? ›
Sound waves are longitudinal waves that travel through a medium like air or water. When we think about sound, we often think about how loud it is (amplitude, or intensity) and its pitch (frequency).
What can sound waves travel through answer? ›
Sound can travel through solids, liquids and gasses. However, it cannot travel through vacuum.
What 3 materials can sound travel through? ›
Sound is a type of energy made by vibrations. These vibrations create sound waves which move through mediums such as air, water and wood. When an object vibrates, it causes movement in the particles of the medium.
Can sound waves travel through anything? ›
Sound can travel through anything made of molecules - even water! There is no sound in space because there are no molecules there to transmit the sound waves. Electromagnetic waves are not like sound waves because they do not need molecules to travel.
What is the science of sound answer? ›
Solution : Sound waves force the medium particles to vibrate. Hence, these waves are known as mechanical waves. Sound waves propagate through a medium because of the interaction of the particles present in that medium.
Sound is a longitudinal wave which consists of compressions and rarefactions travelling through a medium. Sound wave can be described by five characteristics: Wavelength, Amplitude, Time-Period, Frequency and Velocity or Speed.
What is sound in music? ›
musical sound, any tone with characteristics such as controlled pitch and timbre. The sounds are produced by instruments in which the periodic vibrations can be controlled by the performer. vibration of a reed. Related Topics: music tone white noise pitch.
How do you make waves in science? ›
Waves are most commonly caused by wind. Wind-driven waves, or surface waves, are created by the friction between wind and surface water. As wind blows across the surface of the ocean or a lake, the continual disturbance creates a wave crest.
How do sound waves make music? ›
If only a few sound waves pass in the same second, the frequency is low. In music, we hear what happens at different frequencies. The pitch of a note—how high or low it sounds—depends on the frequency of the sound waves. The higher the frequency, the higher the pitch; the lower the frequency, the lower the pitch.
What is the source of all sounds? ›
Sound is all about vibrations.
The source of a sound vibrates, bumping into nearby air molecules which in turn bump into their neighbours, and so forth. This results in a wave of vibrations travelling through the air to the eardrum, which in turn also vibrates.
What type of electromagnetic wave is listening to music? ›
The signals sent from radio and television stations are radio waves. Radio waves can pass through many buildings, yet they don't carry enough energy to harm humans. The wavelengths of radio waves are long enough to go around many obstacles. Radio waves travel through air at the same speed as all electromagnetic waves.
What type of wave allows us to listen to music in the car? ›
You can tune a radio to a specific wavelength—or frequency—and listen to your favorite music. The radio "receives" these electromagnetic radio waves and converts them to mechanical vibrations in the speaker to create the sound waves you can hear.
How are sound waves used in music? ›
In music, we hear what happens at different frequencies. The pitch of a note—how high or low it sounds—depends on the frequency of the sound waves. The higher the frequency, the higher the pitch; the lower the frequency, the lower the pitch.
What type of waves do radio waves use? ›
Radio waves are a type of electromagnetic radiation. A radio wave has a much longer wavelength than visible light. Humans use radio waves extensively for communications. This radio tower has both rectangular and circular antennas to transmit and receive radio frequency energy.
