Karthik Subramanian proposes making the music activities in the educational software GCompris more engaging by incorporating Bobby McFerrin's concept of interactive music. The document describes GCompris, outlines Karthik's motivation, and presents screenshots and code snippets for existing music activities like a virtual piano and karaoke player that could be expanded on.

1. Karthik Subramanian Making GCompris sound more Musical Twitter : @yeskarthik IRC : yeskarthik Mail : [email_address] Mentor : Bruno Coudoin

8. Bit of code /* Code template */ def play_note (self, note, pianobg): notename = self.dataset.get("common", note) fname = 'piano/'+notename+'.wav' self.notetext.props.text = notename self.pianobg1.props.visibility = goocanvas.ITEM_INVISIBLE self.pianobg2.props.visibility = goocanvas.ITEM_INVISIBLE pianobg.props.svg_id = '#' + notename pianobg.props.visibility = goocanvas.ITEM_VISIBLE gcompris.sound.play_ogg(fname) self.dochecknotes(notename)

11. Thank You Code http://git.gnome.org/browse/gcompris