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GROOVE PIZZA

Groove Pizza is a circular rhythm app for creative music making and learning!
It’s also a playful tool for creating grooves using math concepts like shapes,
angles and patterns. Groove Pizza debuted at the Department of Education in
April 2016 to the acclaim of The Washington Post, USA Today, Julian Lennon and
many others. Over 1,500,000 Pizzas served in 216 countries to date!

Start working with one of the "specials" pizza presets and add/remove "toppings"
to adjust the groove, or click on the "Shapes" tab and drag various shapes onto
the big circle to play and explore math-inspired grooves. Share your creations
on Facebook or Twitter, download as audio or midi files, or continue your groove
over at Soundtrap.com or Noteflight.com.

Import your favorite GroovePizza session into interactive music notation
at Flat.io by following the directions here:
https://blog.flat.io/experiment-generating-a-sheet-music-from-your-groove-pizza/.



 
 
 
Launch the Groove Pizza App






Accessible Groove Pizza

 

MusEDLab doctoral student Willie Payne with VIP undergraduate research assistant
Alex Xu created an accessible Groove Pizza working in partnership with the NYU
Ability Lab. To make the Groove Pizza more accessible for visually impaired
users, the Lab designed and implemented different color pallets, audio cues, and
keyboard controls for actions you can perform within the app. You can play with
the accessible Groove Pizza prototype here.

 

Groove Pizzeria

 



MusEDLab masters graduate Tyler Bisson expanded the Groove Pizza concept to
enable play with complex rhythms and polyrhythms, launching the Groove Pizzeria
as part of his masters thesis. Explore and create with more complex rhythms
here: https://tylerbisson.com/Groove-Pizzeria/. Learn more via Ethan Hein's blog
post.

 

Groove Pizza History

 

The ideas behind Groove Pizza began in Ethan Hein's masters thesis work in 2013
at NYU, then extended into the physical and web realm in collaboration with Adam
November and his senior thesis project. In late summer 2015, Adam November coded
up our first web prototype and the MusEDLab began user testing with kids and
music and math educators in NYC.



In January 2016, development began on the current Groove Pizza for
MathScienceMusic.org as a mobile and web app for playful creation of musical
grooves through shapes and math concepts.

 



Article on the development and design of the GroovePizza 2.0 by Ethan Hein and
Sumanth Srinivasan

 

NYU masters thesis by Tyler Bisson extending the functionality to polyrythm and
polymeter through a new Groove Pizzeria design. 

 

Interested in circular music patterns? Learn more from Australian musician and
educator John Varney.

 

MathScienceMusic Groove Pizza Credits:

 

Original Ideas: Ethan Hein, Adam November & Alex Ruthmann

Design: Diana Castro

Software Architect: Kevin Irlen

Creative Code Guru: Matthew Kaney

Backend Code Guru: Seth Hillinger

Play Testing: Marijke Jorritsma, Angela Lau, Harshini Karunaratne, Matt McLean

Odds & Ends: Asyrique Thevendran, Jamie Ehrenfeld, Jason Sigal

 

 
 



All materials Copyright © 2017 NYU Music Experience Design Lab.