Congratulations to Daniel Truemen and Perry Cook for their Mobile Musical Networks project as well as the other winners of the HASTAC Digital Media & Learning Grant Competition! The following is a description of the Mobile Musical Networks project:
Project Description:
Mobile Musical Networks will build an expressive mobile musical laboratory for exploring new ways of making […]
While watching Super Bowl XLII I was thinking about the role music played during commercials and the game. While it was interesting to think about the particular choices of music during commercials, I got the biggest kick from the “Mr. Oboe” commercial featuring Ephraim Salaam and Chester Pitts who, according to the commercial […]
If you’re looking for some inspiration for your students to practice their instruments over winter break, why not have them watch these videos of Igor Falecki, a five year old percussionist and Isaiah Chevrier a 5 year old Djembe player.
Of course there are many other examples of children who perform very well on their instruments […]
Have you ever played a turntable? You can now via the web! That’s right, every time this website is loaded from September 21st through November 25th TurntablePC, an interactive art project, will be triggered to manipulate an LP via the web in an art museum in Denmark. TurntablistPC was developed by Mogens Jacobsen.
Every since I […]
On Tuesday August 7th at 7:00 PM, the Old Town School of Folk Music will be attempting to break the Guinness Book of World Record’s entry for the world’s largest music lesson by holding a massive guitar lesson. If you live in or around Chicago or are looking for something to do this summer consider […]
While music educators are starting to bring the talented young performers on “From The Top” to the attention of their students it would be equally beneficial to make our students aware of composers their age. Belinda Reynolds recently wrote about an ensemble consisting solely of teenage performers and composers called “Formerly Known As Classical“.
NPR […]
Have you ever seen some of the interesting projects students work on in their technology (once known as “shop” ) classes and wished you could collaborate with those teachers to come up with a project that would combine music, technology and a little electrical engineering?
Some students who like to work with electronics might want to […]
Thanks to ptkblog I just learned of jazztube, a website that collects jazz video clips from Youtube and organizes them according to musician. In a way, some of your students can actually say they saw John Coltrane, Clifford Brown or Ella Fitzgerald perform. If your next thought is that there should be a bluestube, you […]
Besides being a great resource for information on music and composers, the Online Conservatory (a project of Northeastern University and the Boston Symphony Orchestra) serves as a possible model for the next generation of concert notes. While many music teaches have their students work on concert notes for programs, the use of multimedia resources could […]
If you didn’t know already, 2007 is MENC’s centennial year. One of the celebration campaigns is having a Centennial Canon performed and recorded by MENC members and/or their students and then submitted to MENC. What would the Canon sound like performed by a student group similar to PLork, Ethel, So Percussion or […]
