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(Head Office: Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo; Representative Director: Kei Kawashima) has begun distributing the original soundtrack for Wonder Box, a STEAM communication teaching material that fosters the ability to think and create. Wonder Box has been well known not only for its teaching materials, but also for its original background music that is sure to catch the ear. The soundtrack containing this music can now be easily enjoyed through various music distribution services. To commemorate the distribution, an interview with the composer Fumihisa Tanaka and the director of the development of educational materials is also available, in which he talks about the behind-the-scenes process of creating the music and his thoughts on children.
Wonder Box is a distance learning service that fosters thinking and creativity through STEAM materials in areas such as programming, science, and art. In the five years since its launch, the service has been well received by children and their parents as a service that uses new ideas and technologies to bring out an unparalleled intellectual excitement.
Wonder Box Original Soundtrack now available
The Wonder Box soundtrack consists of five albums in accordance with the STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, and Mathematics) theme of the educational materials and is available through various music distribution services. We hope you will use them as background music for relaxing or working at home.
Wonder Box Original Soundtrack
VOL. SCIENCE:https://linkco.re/2HeBQPt1
VOL. TECHNOLOGY:https://linkco.re/3MdrD6MS
Vol. Engineering:https://linkco.re/FRevSE26
Vol. Art:https://linkco.re/T4YpcgCb
VOL. MASMATICS:https://linkco.re/DRTeZ7aU
*Using each link, you can listen to songs from each music service for free, including Apple Music, Spotify, and YouTube Music.
A musical experience to find your "love". Interview with Wonderbox Composers
Mr. Fumihisa Tanaka, composer of all Wonder Box songs, and the director of the development of educational materials, talked about the behind-the-scenes production process.
The desire to "respect children's sensibilities and deliver essential experiences" is not limited to music production, but is common to the development of educational materials throughout Wonderbox.
He shares his desire to deliver high-quality, authentic experiences to children, the immersive experience created by original music, and his passion for helping children find their own "favorite" criteria.
Go to the Wonder Five blog.
The official Wonderfi YouTube has created a playlist of all the songs!
Profile
Fumihisa Tanaka
Composer, sonification artist, sound programmer
Born in Matsumoto City, Nagano Prefecture in 1986.
After graduating from Matsumoto Fukashi High School and the Department of Music Environment Creation at Tokyo University of the Arts, he completed the Graduate School of Music at Tokyo University of the Arts in 2010.
Using various techniques and technologies related to music, he has been exploring and presenting new ways of being in music, not only in music production, but also in approaches to space, research applications, and more recently, production, research, and development using "sonification," which transforms everything into sound.
Major works include the educational app "Think! Think!" (2017 Google Play Award Finalist, 2023 APEC Digital Innovation and Educational Opportunities 1st Prize), the educational app "WONDER BOX", the films Film Love Today", "Atmosphere", NHK Special Drama "Momo-san and the Seven Papagenos" (2022 Japan Arts Festival Participant), NHK E-television "On the Night of #August 31. (2018 Italy Prize-winning program), etc.
Official site:https://www.fumihisatanaka.net/
About "Wonder Box," a STEAM communication resource for learning while playing
Wonder Box, launched in April 2020, is a distance learning service in the STEAM domain* that fosters children's "ability to think, creativity, and motivation" at home through a combination of digital and analog methods (target age: 4-10 years old). The service provides playful educational materials such as programming, art, board games, and puzzles to cultivate the basic skills in the STEAM educational domain that will be required in the coming age. It has received numerous awards, including the Kids Design Award, Good Design Award, and Parenting Award. It has received high acclaim for its design and quality as educational materials.
(*)STEAM education is an acronym for Science, Technology, Engineering, Art, and Mathematics, and refers to the educational domain of science and art. It is a concept that has been advocated in educational policy in Europe and the United States, and has recently been emphasized in educational reform in Japan.
Wonder Box official website:https://box.wonderlabedu.com/
About WonderPhi Inc.
WonderPhi is a company that develops and operates educational materials and content to bring out the "intellectual excitement" in children around the world, including Wonderbox, a new correspondence course for STEAM education, and Think ThinkSync, an application that has been enjoyed by 3 million children in 150 countries and has helped them develop their thinking skills. The company also operates "Think Think Think," an application that nurtures thinking skills and is enjoyed by 3 million children in 150 countries. The company is a pioneer in STEAM/STEM and thinking skills educational materials, having produced and supervised many questions for international math competitions.
In November 2018, the company won the top prize at the Japan preliminary round of the Global EdTech Startups Awards (GESA), the world's largest education venture competition (*1). We have also exhibited and spoken at SXSW EDU and other global educational forums as a representative of Japan.
In February 2020, we announced a new distance learning program in the STEAM education area, Wonderbox (*2).
On December 14, 2022, the company name was changed from WonderLab to WonderPhi Inc.(*3).
Official website of Wonderfi Corporation:https://wonderfy.inc
(*1) Winning a prize at the "Global EdTech Startups Awards (GESA) https://prtimes.jp/main/html/rd/p/000000028.000012970.html
(*2) Collaboration with partners https://wonderfy.inc/solution
