Chrome Music Lab: Google’s app that links the web and music

Whether you’re an aspiring musician, a fan of contemporary music, or simply curious, the Google Chrome app ‘Chrome Music Lab’ will change the way you see music and make it easier to learn about music on the web, while sparking your creativity!

Music on the web

Nowadays, new bands are formed every day and evolve year after year, and music is also produced and listened to on the web. Who hasn’t spent afternoons or evenings with friends, listening to their own playlists on Spotify or Deezer? Riding the wave of online music, musical innovation and the constant expansion of the internet, the giant Google has launched the Chrome Music Lab app to mark Music In Our School Month…

Chrome Music Lab

A real experience to be enjoyed on your Google Chrome browser, this platform allows anyone to discover the world of music and makes music accessible to all. Chrome Music Lab offers several short ‘music workshops’ in the form of clickable images, including workshops on Strings, Rhythm, Oscillators, Harmonics and Spectrograms, all accessible from the home page. In each of these music workshops, we are invited to test the clickable buttons.

For example, in the ‘Musical Spectrum’ workshop, you can analyze and discover the spectrum created by different instruments such as the saxophone or the harp. You can also choose a piece of music from your music library to view its spectrogram. Please note that only 21 seconds of listening can be analyzed.
With the Chrome Music Lab application, you can learn how to compose and create a melody on the web. Highly interactive, it encourages you to try out everything on offer and develop your first piece of music by creating different rhythms and varied harmonics.

An open-source musical experience

Geeks, web integrators and music-loving developers will find what they’re looking for on Chrome Music Lab. Its code being open source, each little music workshop can be customized and improved, allowing Google to perfect its application. Web professionals are also invited to create small music-focused software programs to encourage those interested in composing, learning and playing melodies in ways other than on traditional instruments.

Free, interesting and promising, Chrome Music Lab will continue to be talked about for some time to come. Future Mozarts, get to your keyboards!

Written by Léa Gautheron

Translated from French to English by Maureen Barbaroux