These are pictures and recordings of the participants in the Sounds of Music C event at the 2002 Regional Michigan Science Olympiad, held at Grand Valley State University on March 23, 2002. The co-ordinators for this event were John Bender and Andrew Sterian.

Each team of 2 students was required to construct two musical instruments using only non-instrument parts. They were required to discuss the theory behind the construction and sound production of the instruments, and to play a short excerpt of "Ode to Joy" as well as a longer piece of their own choosing.

The recordings are available in both uncompressed WAV and Ogg Vorbis compressed format. The recordings are very quiet, you will have to increase the playback volume to its maximum level (headphones work best). The Ogg Vorbis compression is fairly aggressive (85 kb/s), in order to minimize file size, hence you should download the WAV files if you want a cleaner sound.

Thumbnails of the instruments are shown below. Click on a thumbnail to see a larger version of the picture.

		Ode to Joy [WAV 926k] [OGG 106k]	Prepared Piece [WAV 3.9M] [OGG 435k]				Ode to Joy (not available)	Prepared Piece [WAV 9.8M] [OGG 1M]
		Ode to Joy [WAV 864k] [OGG 96k]	Prepared Piece [WAV 3.7M] [OGG 404k]				Ode to Joy [WAV 1.0M] [OGG 113k]	Prepared Piece [WAV 2.8M] [OGG 309k]
		Ode to Joy [WAV 2.0M] [OGG 227k]	Prepared Piece (not available)				Ode to Joy [WAV 1.6M] [OGG 181k]	Prepared Piece [WAV 3.2M] [OGG 348k]
		Ode to Joy [WAV 1.0M] [OGG 115k]	Prepared Piece [WAV 5.3M] [OGG 608k]				Ode to Joy [WAV 1.3M] [OGG 150k]	Prepared Piece [WAV 2.8M] [OGG 305k]
		Ode to Joy [WAV 714k] [OGG 83k]	Prepared Piece [WAV 1.2M] [OGG 135k]				Ode to Joy [WAV 2.7M] [OGG 299k]	Prepared Piece [WAV 2.2M] [OGG 255k]
		Ode to Joy [WAV 1.0M] [OGG 112k]	Prepared Piece [WAV 1.4M] [OGG 162k]				Ode to Joy [WAV 861k] [OGG 95k]	Prepared Piece [WAV 3.1M] [OGG 333k]
		Ode to Joy [WAV 789k] [OGG 89k]	Prepared Piece [WAV 4.6M] [OGG 513k]				Ode to Joy [WAV 1.9M] [OGG 227k]	Prepared Piece [WAV 1.7M] [OGG 201k]
		Ode to Joy [WAV 1.6M] [OGG 177k]	Prepared Piece [WAV 2.5M] [OGG 274k]				Ode to Joy [WAV 1.7M] [OGG 193k]	Prepared Piece [WAV 3.1M] [OGG 342k]