The Music Cre8tor is an interactive music composition device particularly suitable for the physically and cognitively challenged. It uses movement sensors that can be held or attached to a person's wrist, arm, leg, etc to allow its user to create musical landscapes or work with individual aspects of intonation: pitch, tempo, or dynamics. By adapting the parameters of movement to each individual user's range of motion, any person can control and compose music even by the slightest of motions or large and sudden gestures. Up to four people can play and interact with each other, record their creations and edit sound playback files as well as other kinds of sonic sources.

This program is designed for use by all ages and a diverse set of populations within special education. It has been successfully tested for both middle school and high school ages. During our trials, the Music Cre8tor was used with joy by students with limited mobility as well as students with complete mobility but limited cognitive capacity.

The concept of the Music Cre8tor, which is in its final stages of development, was conceived by the late Paul Nash, founder of the Manhattan New Music Project, was fine-tuned by his successor and co-conspirator Julia Reinhart and is currently being finalized by Jane Rigler, a renowned musician and experienced teaching artist. The software program and hardware design has been crafted and manufactured by Hans Tammen at Harvestworks studios, in New York.

The Music Cre8tor is currently being tested in classrooms around New York City's public schools.

The Music Cre8tor was developed with the generous support of the Mitsubishi Electric America Foundation.

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