Making Sound Synthesis Accessible for Children

In this paper we present our project to make sound synthesis and music controller construction accessible to children in a technology design workshop. We present the work we have carried out to develop a graphical user interface, and give account of the workshop we conducted in collaboration with a local primary school. Our results indicate that the production of audio events by means of digital synthesis and algorithmic composition provides a rich and interesting field to be discovered for pedagogical workshops taking a Constructionist approach.