Posts Tagged ‘jam2jam_XO’

jam2jam xo breaks the 10,000 download barrier in 2 months. http://tinyurl.com/3a4j9cf Congratulations to Thorin Kerr for putting smiles on the faces of children all over the world.

Reviews: Jam2Jam does many of things that make the XO such a powerful learning device - rather than being built around students doing their own thing, its centred on group sharing. I’ve found that quite apart from the music side of things, its great just for teaching students co-operation and listening skills. The included sounds/samples are a bit limited and electronic, but good enough to allow the virtual ‘bands’ to get going.Rated 4 out of 5 stars by jnxyz on May 24, 2010

Jam2jam_XO  has 1000 downloads in its first week, and is currently listed in the “Top Downloads” for Media Creation activities on Sugar Labs, the official OLPC software site.

Congratulations to ACID developer Thorin Kerr who has made a version of jam2jam for OLPC that is an exciting contribution to music on the machine. OLPC Australia will be trying the new music software in classrooms with children in remote communities. Teachers and musicians will be developing Recipes for jamming and style/scenes for music learning and for use in other subjects where collaborative music making can contribute to making the learning experiences fun and engaging. See more info and download a copy for your XO by clicking this link.

You don’t have to own an OLPC to try it you can run the OS from a memory stick on Mac or PC machines.

Thorin has also tested jam2jam XO on Sugar on a stick using PC and Apple machines. The only downside of this format is the OS does not permit camera functions.

About Jam2Jam XO

Jam2jam software makes the OLPC XO laptop into a musical instrument. With Jam2jam XO, players can create and perform music and present images either on their own or synchronised with others, over the mesh network. In a Jam2Jam XO band each user plays a different part, either bass, drums, guitar, or keyboards.

Jam2Jam XO uses generative technologies so users can make choices about the musical activity in real time and influence changes in the music by moving a part icon up and down to alter the music in various ways. With Jam2jam XO you can be playing in a band within minutes and learn about musical concepts through playing collaboratively with others.

Thorin Kerr Demonstrates jam2jam for OLPC using a Country and western style with web cam images. This shows the extended functionality of network jamming with both music and images DJ/VJ. This will enable users to jam collaboratively with OLPC instruments in real time and also capture images.

Whilst the sound on these little machines is only heard through the tiny inbuilt speakers through headphones or a stereo the sounds are lovely samples.