[OLPC-Oceania] TamTam OLPC project

[Sean Linton]

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On 20 September 2011 11:48, Sean Linton <sean at lpnz.org> wrote:

> The situation; the OLPC organisation distributed computers with operating
> systems and activities (or applications) built in, but not without the
> possibility of developing these activities and system to better suit the
> needs of individual communities representative of different parts of the
> world. One of the educational programs on the system involves a suite of
> music activities collectively known as TamTam. In the *TamTamMini* activity
> for example instruments are arranged on a grid, with a photo and
> an embedded sound sample for each photo (see screen shot attached). Each
> instrument can be assigned to a sequencer control pannel.
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> Based on photos and sound samples I provided from the same instruments,
> encouragingly, developers of the TamTam activities have been able to include
> more instruments, to better represent the world's musical instruments,
> relative to the location of the computer. So for this example I have
> provided photos and samples of pan pipes, instruments from the Solomon
> Islands, with the particular intention that those OLPC computers which were
> distributed to the Solomon Islands may upgrade their TamTam activities to
> the version which now includes the photos of pan pipes.
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> The version of the activity with the pan pipes may now be distributed
> around the world, as well as to the computers in the Solomon Islands. To my
> knowledge the pan pipes are included now in the TamTam activity for the
> first time as a musical icon.
>
> http://activities.sugarlabs.org/es-ES/sugar/addon/4061
> Please read past "Release Notes"
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> I would like to suggest one psychological significance may be of instant
> recognition of the other object photos as musical instruments. Where by if a
> person sees instruments which he or she is familiar with along side photos
> of instruments which have only been seen virtually then the recognition of
> their own icons of traditional musical culture has further contributed to a
> contemporary, you might say "dignified", education. It would be great to
> travel to other parts of the world to implement similar changes where
> appropriate, but for now this is the current state of my *ethnography,* and
> I am glad that the open development philosophy of these activities and this
> system are able to complement indigenous musical traditions*. *  * *
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> Glad to know any thoughts you might have, regarding.* *
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> Kindest,
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> Sean
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