Music Playground

Space Glockenspiel

A game for recognising and reproducing melodies on a glockenspiel. Players listen to a melodic pattern and play it back to help a little alien find his robots.

MusApps · Greek Society for Music Education

Deep Blue Music Bottom

A listening game about melodic direction. Players identify whether the sound moves upwards or downwards and position their fish at the corresponding pitch.

MusApps · Greek Society for Music Education

The Rhythm of Apache

A game for listening to, remembering and reproducing rhythmic patterns on a drum. Patterns become progressively more complex to support rhythmic practice.

MusApps · Greek Society for Music Education

Guess the Emojis — Christmas Edition

A digital music game in Canva where teams identify Christmas songs from emoji combinations. It includes ten levels of increasing difficulty, with five puzzles per level.

A Musical Journey around the World

An interactive game introducing musical cultures. Listen to short musical excerpts and match them to their geographical regions of origin.

Melispi · Digital Library of Greek School Textbooks

QR Drummer!

An application for making rhythms with QR codes. Each code activates a TR-808 pattern, while users adjust the tempo and enable or mute individual percussion sounds.

SoundBrushAiR!

Hand movements become drawings and sound in real time. Gestures, visual effects and musical scales are combined with image saving and audio recording.

Pentatonic VR Forest!

A 3D musical world for exploring the pentatonic scale. Users activate musical shapes through gaze or touch to create melodies in standard or stereoscopic views.

Magic Music Sky

A listening and melodic-memory game with coloured notes. Players listen to a sequence of pitches and target the corresponding notes in the correct order.

The Cat and the Musical Robots

A musical exploration game set in a virtual garden. Each contact records a note; after sixteen notes, the melody is played back with a backing track.

Synth4kids

An educational synthesiser for sound exploration, improvisation and an introduction to electronic music. It combines music education approaches with interactive features and emerging technologies.

DJ Ostomachion

Educational music software based on Archimedes’ Ostomachion. Placing the mathematical puzzle pieces activates sound samples, supporting musical exploration and recording.

Drawing Music!

A tool for creating graphic scores with colours, shapes and sound. Colour selects the waveform, while position on the canvas affects pitch and volume.

Melispi · Digital Library of Greek School Textbooks

Drum-machine 808

A sixteen-step drum machine for programming repeating rhythmic patterns. Users choose where each percussion sound is played in the sequence.

Melispi · Digital Library of Greek School Textbooks

Innovative Digital Instruments

A digital instrument that connects hand movements with sounds and effects. A camera detects interactions with virtual musical objects to support improvisation.

Melispi · Digital Library of Greek School Textbooks

Drum-machine Lite

A simple sixteen-step drum machine with three percussion sounds. Create rhythmic patterns and adjust the volume and stereo position of each sound.

Melispi · Digital Library of Greek School Textbooks

African Drums

An interactive application for playing four African percussion sounds. It supports keyboard, mouse and camera-based hand-movement interaction.

Melispi · Digital Library of Greek School Textbooks

Serial Composition App!

An application for creating a twelve-tone row and its prime, retrograde, inversion and retrograde-inversion forms. Select the pitches or generate a random row.

Melispi · Digital Library of Greek School Textbooks

Minimal Composition App!

A minimalist composition application in C major, inspired by Terry Riley’s In C. Activate and freely combine twelve melodic patterns for musical exploration.

Melispi · Digital Library of Greek School Textbooks

Rhythm Maker!

An application for creating rhythmic patterns with four percussion instruments. Adjust the tempo and isolate each ostinato for accompaniment and classroom improvisation.

Melispi · Digital Library of Greek School Textbooks

Backing Track Maker!

An application for creating backing tracks with four percussion instruments and the C–Am–F–G chord progression. Rhythmic patterns and tempo can be adjusted in real time.

Melispi · Digital Library of Greek School Textbooks

SynthMaster 101

An interactive polyphonic synthesiser with a two-octave keyboard and four waveforms. Sound effects support an introduction to music technology and sound exploration.

Melispi · Digital Library of Greek School Textbooks

Tala Teentaal

An application for exploring the Indian Teentaal rhythmic cycle. Select positions within its sixteen beats, view the corresponding rhythmic syllables and adjust the tempo.

Melispi · Digital Library of Greek School Textbooks

Soundscape Composition App

A soundscape composition environment with sounds from forests around the world arranged in five tracks. Adjust each sound’s pitch, volume and stereo position.

Melispi · Digital Library of Greek School Textbooks

Aleatoric Music Composition

An application for exploring aleatoric music. Three generators produce random pitches and can be enabled or disabled to create different sound combinations.

Melispi · Digital Library of Greek School Textbooks

Soundscape Town Composition App

A composition environment using urban sounds in five tracks. Shape the soundscape by changing pitch, volume and stereo position.

Melispi · Digital Library of Greek School Textbooks

Music Based on the Fibonacci Sequence

An application connecting music and mathematics through the Fibonacci sequence. Choose pitches and durations, arrange the sequence and listen to the composition.

Melispi · Digital Library of Greek School Textbooks

Intersection App!

A graphic-score application inspired by Morton Feldman’s Intersection 2. A grid of low, middle and high sounds supports composition, with random filling and file saving.

Melispi · Digital Library of Greek School Textbooks

Body percussion maker!

An application for creating rhythmic patterns with four body-percussion sounds. Adjust tempo and isolate ostinatos for accompaniment, performance and classroom improvisation.

Melispi · Digital Library of Greek School Textbooks

Byzantune

Interactive software for Byzantine notation and traditional Greek music. Recognition and listening exercises, playback and recording support vocal practice.

Design: Yannis Mygdanis, Nikos Fragkakis · Development: Yannis Mygdanis

C Blues Jam Keys!

An interactive environment for exploring twelve-bar blues, the blues scale and its basic chords. A virtual keyboard and backing track support improvisation.

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Piano Challenges

An application for creative piano practice. Learners choose three categories and approach the piece they are studying through different musical challenges.

Pythagoras’ Monochord

A simulation of Pythagoras’ monochord for exploring musical ratios. Choose a tonal reference, move the marker and relate its position to frequency and sound.

Melispi · Digital Library of Greek School Textbooks

Isokratis App

A drone accompaniment application for Byzantine music practice. It sustains the ison as a stable tonal reference and provides real-time support for singing.

Melispi · Digital Library of Greek School Textbooks

The Tangible Sequencer

A tangible application for creating melodic patterns with a camera and physical objects. Users place black objects on a printed layout to arrange a melodic sequence.

Greek Society for Music Education

The Tangible Drum Machine

A tangible application for creating rhythmic patterns. A camera recognises objects on a printed layout and turns their arrangement into a rhythmic sequence.

Greek Society for Music Education

Anaglyph3DApp

A tool for turning images into anaglyph 3D images. Import an image or camera snapshot, adjust the red and cyan channels, and save the result.

StereoscopicMakerApp

A tool for creating stereoscopic images from photographs or camera snapshots. It offers displacement, colour, brightness and contrast controls, with image export.

HologramPyramidApp

A tool for preparing images for a hologram pyramid display. Users adjust the arrangement, size, rotation and brightness, then save the resulting image.

WiggleImageApp

An application for creating animated images from one or two photographs. Adjust the duration, movement intensity and speed, then export the result as a GIF.