It might be freezing outside but you can still consider having your students enroll in:
New York University’s Summer Institute of Music Technology for High School students July 14-25th, 2008.
This two-week workshop is designed for high school students entering their junior or senior year who wish to learn about and experience music technology. Through class […]
I’ve been closely following recent dialogue over the legality of transferring music from a legally purchased CD to a computer. The web has been abuzz since Marc Fisher wrote in a recent article that the RIAA considers the practice of transferring music from a legally purchased CD, illegal. This information quickly spread around the […]
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 […]
I always enjoyed having my students create ringtones and discuss the musical ideas they came up with and decisions they made. One of the aspects of the process I focused on was how to compose music for such a short amount of time. Robert Voisey wrote about this topic in an interesting article […]
Thanks to Jeff Chang for pointing out a recent article in the New York Times that discusses David Henry Hwang’s new musical “Yellow Face.” His new play addresses some of the issues of race, ethnicity and stereotypes that he also dealt with in his musical M. Butterfly in response to Miss Saigon.
This reminded me of […]
I mentioned the Sept. 25th hearing on degrading stereotypes of women in media a couple of days ago in a post regarding the discussion of rap and misogyny. The House Subcommittee hearing titled “From Imus to Industry: The Business of Stereotypes and Degrading Images” provides some interesting material to raise in music classrooms for students’ […]
Today is the last day you can make comments regarding MENC’s Strategic Plan. You can contribute comments via email or on a dedicated bulletin board. As of this post only about 20 people have contributed comments on the bulletin board. The comments range in topic from debate over whether or not there should be high […]
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 […]
I had a fabulous time at the 2007 SMTE Symposium this past weekend. Congratulations to everyone at University of North Carolina at Greensboro that organized and ran the symposium so smoothly. It was great seeing people I’ve met at previous conferences and meeting new colleagues as well. The conference was packed with important presentations […]
I’m looking forward to attending the Society of Music Teacher Education symposium later this week. A look through the program shows that it is going to be full of interesting papers and presentations.
Janet Barret and I will be presenting our position paper “Counterpoint or Remix? A Dialogue on Popular Music and Popular Culture in the […]
