This train track like no other allows you to compose thanks to a grammar of shapes and colours. Quickly, create your piece by choosing your musical motifs, the Compositrain will soon pass by to play your creation!

Music can arouse emotions such as delight or fear. In filmmaking the music can reflect a story, suggest a character or illustrate an event. Film music often characterises a genre of cinema: usually slower, sadder music for a tragedy; and fast-paced music for an action film. So what happens if we change a film’s music? Keep your eyes –
and ears – open!

Adding sound effects is one of the stages in filmmaking. It involves making noises or sounds to match the scenes of a film: a door slamming, wind sighing, and so on. An array of sometimes unexpected objects are used to make them: a coffee grinder, coconut shells, a wind machine… Sound effects can bring a character to life and tell a story!
Are you ready for noise collage?

When music is made up of more than one voice singing at the same time, we call it polyphony. Musical phrases are combined, come together or answer each other to construct a musical architecture. Polyphony can be instrumental or vocal, as in a choir.

In music, there are styles for every taste. How different they are, baroque, salsa and hard rock? Each style has its own characteristics. We recognise them from the choice of instruments and their use, and the beats and chords.

Created in 17th-century Italy, opera is a theatrical play in song. Accompanied by an orchestra, the singers play heroes and heroines who must face ordeals to achieve their destiny! Operatic composers write for different vocal ranges (deep or high-pitched, soft or powerful) to reflect the personalities of their characters.