Making Music | 3/11/19-3/15/19

Summary:

       Music is created through the vibrations of molecules when sound waves hit them. In order to create different sounds and have a full scale, you must be hitting things with different measurements. For example, to test this, you can hold an object such as a ruler, and grab on to a part of it that is somewhat close to an edge. Then, hit the side of the ruler that is smallest, and then hit the other side of the ruler. You will then notice a difference. This is due to how the amount of space that the sound wave can travel is different when changing the size of the object in which you hit. This is the exact way that some instruments function. Instruments such as the xylophone or glass harp (the one where the cups are filled with water). For the xylophone, the bars (the things that you hit) are all different sizes. For the glass harp, each glass is filled with a different amount of water, which means that the sound waves have different amount of spaces to travel. This is how varying measurements creates different sounds. 

S&EP 5-Using Mathematics and Computational Thinking:

       I used mathematics and computational thinking this week when creating my musical instrument. As mentioned above, we (my group) found out that in order to play different sounds that have different pitches, you must have varying sizes of a certain material (at least for the instrument that we had in mind). So we used mathematics to plan out and eventually build our instrument. We had to come up with the smallest size for one of the things that we were going to hit, and the amount that we would increase from each thing. We wanted to ensure that you could hear a difference but that it gradually changed increments at a time. Because if not, we would end up having our biggest thing that we are going to hit be very large, which is the exact opposite of what we were going for. Our mathematics ended up working and our instrument was able to play a full scale. As we ended up having our smallest thing being 6.5 cm and each thing increased 1 centimeter from the previous

XCC-Systems and System Models:

       The system I identified this week was our musical instrument that we created. The parts of our system are the base PVC pipe, the sticks (the things that you hit), and the rice inside of the pipe. All of these parts work together to create sound and music. The base pipe is what holds the sticks and rice, and without it, none of our parts would be together. The sticks are what is majorly used to create sound. Each stick plays a vital role in creating a different pitch so that we can create music. All eight sticks are what is used to create a full scale. Lastly, the rice is what is used to create a totally different tone of sound so that the music stays nice and fresh. This rice is what will be used when needing to take break up the hitting of the sticks so that a completely new type of sound can be produced.




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