You can create and compose music in Polly World in several ways:
– by interacting with the Polly Tangibles:
Polly Land, Polly Planet, Polly Fire and Polly Ocean.
– by the graphical user interface on the Polly Compose App on your Smartphone or Tablet.
– by writing compositions in Polly World’s own high level Twitter Language in the Polly Compose APP.
The high level Twitter language contains different musical actions (words in the language in “” below). The words are related to existing sensors on the Polly Tangibles such as “Bend”, “Wave”, “Say”, “Hit” and “Set Scene”. “Bend” controls the Bend-sensor in the selected mobile Polly Tangibles. “Hit” controls the Touch-sensors, “Wave” the Movement-sensor, while “Say” Controls the Microphone by playing recorded sayings. “Set Scene” is equivalent to holding the Scene card against the RFID-reader.
There are several ways to play the musical actions, such as “Fast”, “Slow”, “Rush”, “Fade”, “Wild” and “Soft”. You can decide for how long you want the musical action to last, by adding numbers.
Here are some examples of simple compositions as full Twitter-messages and how they look in the user interface, where you have already chosen the Polly Tangible to play on and control in the first screeen. More examples and sound recordings will come:
@mff_aho_pollyplanet setscene “mamma” hit 5 1 2 2 3 3 3 3
@mff_aho_pollyplanet hit 1 1 1 1 1 2 fast
@mff_aho_pollyplanet say “tacos” repeat
@mff_uio_pollyfire setscene “fox” and bend a b a b
@mff_uio_pollyfire wave x y x y x y z fade
@mff_uio_pollyfire say “hello” rush
@mff_nmh_pollyocean setscene “bad”
@mff_nmh_pollyocean hit 1 1 1 1 1 2 fast for 5s
@mff_nmh_pollyocean say “hello” repeat
@mff_nmh_pollyocean say “hello” wild
@mff_nmh_pollyocean say “goodbye” soft
in the Compose APP the composition will look like this: .
