Melody

After playing with Melody Maker and Kandinsky, I found Melody Maker to be easier. It gave me limitations to my options. I just needed to press different spaces within the grid to activate the note’s pitch. It fulfilled my expectation, therefore it was very straight forward and fluid. Kandinsky did not fulfill my expectations and was harder to use. There were so many options for me to explore. There was no consistency. I could draw similar shapes, but their sounds could be completely different. For that same reason, I would say Kandinsky is way more expressive. It gave me the freedom to connect visuals to sound. I could draw a cohesive picture and it would create a melody out of it for me. I think this freedom allowed me to accurately depict a true of my feelings better. Melody Maker was mainly altering the tempo and pitch of notes while Kandinsky was the pitch and timbre of the notes. I could not speed up the melody in Kandinsky and the timbre in Melody Maker was the same for each note.