Well, talking about music and pedagogy, why not share with you an interesting project! Music and Google maps!
So, let's talk about! Arcade Fire! Do you know this group of music don't you?! Here, the last project of "Arcade Fire", very innovative, using the latest Technologies.
So, Google joined this canadian group Arcade Fire to conceptualize an interactive video that shows some of the potentialities of the new "markup" language.
The Wilderness Downtown choreographed windows, interactive flocking, custom rendered maps, real-time compositing, procedural drawing, 3D canvas rendering... this Chrome Experiment has them all.
"The Wilderness Downtown" is an interactive interpretation of Arcade Fire's song "We Used To Wait" and was built entirely with the latest open web technologies, including HTML5 video, audio, and canvas.
"The Wilderness Downtown" an interactive film by Chris Milk, is part of the new album of Arcade Fire.
It demands our interaction using Google Maps and Street View to include these resources in the video images from the town where we are or live!
Google Maps API for fetching dynamic routes to destination and checking Street View content at points along the route.
On the website, you must enter the address of the town where you grew up and it's so amazing!!
I did the experience and it is fantastic! I just loved it!
Listening the song that goes on in our city, following several browser windows 3D that open and close at the music rythm. At the end of the interactive video, an ecological message! Trees for everywhere! Wow! It's amazing!
Street detection for animated trees composited dynamically in place over Street View.
A postcard is created by an analog signal: you! This site takes that postcard and converts it to digital. The Wilderness Machine brings it back to analog. Look for it on tour with the band in North America. If you're lucky enough to get someone's postcard from it, plant it. A tree will grow out of it.
What a wonderful tool to geo-studies in classroom with your students! They will be so surprised! Don't forget! Let them do this geo-study on their smartphones !
Ready to start?
G-Souto
11.10.2010
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References:
Chrome Experiments
http://www.chromeexperiments.com/
Arcade Fire
http://www.chromeexperiments.com/arcadefire/
The Wilderness Downtown
http://www.thewildernessdowntown.com/
