Newport Beach kids Zoe Ricci and Laura Murphy love making “crazy” music at the Boys & Girls Club in Newport Beach.
There are no actual instruments involved, though Zoe mentions she has her own piano at home and Laura’s parents keep a guitar. What they do have, though, is imagination to spare.
Armed with a pair of white rings around their small fingers and a flat image of what appears to be a colorful xylophone, they said they sometimes rewrite songs that they’ve heard before by tapping the rings onto the colored panels.
They are creating this music using Sphero Specdrums, just one of the new technologies that participants in the Boys & Girls Clubs of Central Orange Coast can play with now that the makerspaces — collaborative work spaces — at its four clubhouses have officially relaunched ahead of the school year.
Robert Santana, chief executive officer of the organization,…
