Makes Tagged "poem"

Did you ever wonder what a poem sounds like? This Make idea is all about taking text (your own, or maybe someone else’s) and turning those words into music. The P22 Music Text Composition Converter does the hard work for you, but you still have some choices — instrument voice, beats per minute, etc. How might you take this text-music idea a step further? Why not use the text-music download (it is a MIDI file, so you might have to do more conversion to MP3 via a site like Zamzar) as a soundtrack to something that goes deeper with the text?… Read more »

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Steps to make a statue for a hero. (teachers could change and adjust this task) Choose a hero (why is this a hero?) Make a statue (plaquette) a 3D image of your hero. On or next to the statue will be a poem or a song to tell the public why this is your hero. If you do not know how to connect statue and text: Look on the internet for statues with text. The statue could be made of wood, clay, Lego, food, cake, sugar, chocolate, paper, and other stuff. Choose the way you deliver publish your statue. (you… Read more »

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