Visualization of Music Designed for Children with Severe Disabilities

The children participating in the MUMIn-project at the special school Årstagrundsärskola are already developing their learning skills and creativity through music.Although they have a problem. They have not used a program that visualizes the music played in a way that is understandable and rewarding. In order to furtherdevelop their skills in cause-effect relationships, such a program is highly sought after. By creating an application designed to be run on a computer at the same time as thechildren are playing music on MIDI-instruments connected to the same computer, theproblem could be solved. The visualizations would be shown on a projected screen and display animations that were designed to be as easy to understand as possible butstill have room for further exploration if they would be too simple for some of the children. Even though the children were on different skill levels, how they played music along with the visualizations showed that the created application both helps thechildren to connect cause-effect relationships and also help develop other skills like for example motor skills. The created application could because of these results be avery useful learning tool in further work in the MUMIn-project