To help kiddo relax at bedtime, I offered her a copy of the TaoMix 2
app, which lets one create a mixture of pleasing sounds — birds chirping,
a sea shore, rain, wind, that sort of thing. One creates custom "scenes"
by dropping a sound icon onto the canvas. When playing, a circle moves
around the screen randomly — like a screensaver might — and the sounds
represented by the icons are played, based on the proximity of the circle
to each icon... so if the circle is near two sounds, both sounds will be
played. The sounds will become louder as the circle approaches and quieter
as the circle passes. Neat stuff, great interface. She downloads it.
I even sent her a simple soundscape I made from just two elements, so
she could see how the circle moves across and how the sounds respond.
It looked like this:
About ten minutes later she presents me with her first custom soundscape;
using audio from a TikTok video of an older woman noisily filling her pants,
she covered — COVERED — the entire canvas with only that sound, effectively
creating a perpetual pants disaster.
This is the same kid who, at 6, promptly used her new iPad to record
a video of her aiming one super long booger right at the camera lens.
Technology per se is not the answer.
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