Catalysts & Connections - Evan Tobias

For a while now I’ve been keeping track of Web-based listening/music discovery/remixing etc. applications that I believe have positive implications for and uses in music classrooms. I alluded to some possible uses in a presentation I gave at the New Directions in General Music Conference at MSU earlier this year.

Today the Listening Post featured an interview with the creator of Muxtape one of the applications included in my del.icio.us collection (click on the link in the first paragraph to access it).

I thought this part of the interview was particularly interesting:

One thing I added recently was Amazon affiliate links, and the conversion rate has exceeded my expectations. People are buying music they’re discovering on Muxtape, which is exciting. -Justine Ouellette

While we don’t have statistics, hard data or empirical evidence of what role online listening applications have on music sales, the notion that people will no longer buy music that they can hear for free online can be problematized. It would be interesting to find out how many students use these various applications and what ways they are using them.

Do you use any of them in your classroom?

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