Festival of the Arts Digital Music Projects
School Year 2023-2024
For this final project, our sixth grade students were asked to create a concept for a video game and then compose a theme song for their concept. Programs used in this project included Mario Art Music Composer and Soundtrap. This project was done in correlation with our study of the history of music in movies, theater and video games.
For these midterm and final projects, seventh grade students were asked to complete research projects on two topics. The first topic was a musical instrument study and the second topic was a cultural study from a different country in the world. Students then presented their projects in class in front of their peers.
These musical compositions were created by our seventh grade students as part of their midterm projects. After studying the music of West Africa and the Central and South Americas, students were asked to use Soundtrap to create remixes of authentic world music instrument loops from areas of the world we had studied.
For their midterm projects, all eighth grade students were directed to create a biography research presentation on one of thier favorite musicians. This was done after our study of the music industry and careers in music. Students then presented their projects in class to their peers.
As a final project, eighth grade students are asked to replicate the creative process of being a music producer. The assignment directs them to create a set of tracks that could be a part of a an album. Students then reflect on their process and present one of their tracks to the class.
6th Grade Video Game Music Compositions