Catalysts & Connections - Evan Tobias

Creative Commons’s decision to sell CC mixter (an online remix community) might be cause for alarm, though it could also lead to a new and improved version of the site. The concept behind CC Mixter and resources it offers have important implications for music education. It provides both a space and means for legal remixing […]

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 […]

James Frankel is encouraging people to post about their preference between the notation programs Sibelius and Finale. If you use one of them and have an opinion you would like to express, head over to his post and add a comment. If you have been thinking about using a notation program and are curious what […]

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 […]

Prior to being a full time student, when I was teaching in a public school, I remember being very frustrated with my lack of access to various music research journals. There was no way I could afford subscriptions to the wide variety of journals I now read and downloading one article could cost up to […]

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 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 […]

The grassroots campaign to save internet radio and audio streaming sites took an interesting turn the other day when many organizations that host these types of resources held a day of silence to draw focus to the change in royalties that may mean the end to these resources. This has interesting implications for music educators […]

About a year ago I wrote about the possibility of robots appearing in school music ensembles. With The League of Electronic Musical Urban Robots (LEMUR) still at it, a set of concerts are being performed by robots with music commissioned from composers ranging from Morton Subotnick to the group They Might Be Giants.
Is it possible […]

While looking online for information on MAX/MSP patches I came across an online electronic music community. We don’t often hear about computers being used as instruments to perform in public schools and when it comes to electronic instruments we are usually referring to electric guitars, basses and keyboards. One of the topics I find myself […]