All Entries Tagged With: "technology"
Whole class composing with GarageBand – option 1
I recently ran a course (just a small part of a day for local music educators) for which the suggested title was Whole class composing with garageBand. In fact the first draft of the schedule read “Whole class composing with GarageBand (Phil Kirkman) is this possible?”. I’m not’t sure whether this was asking if I [...]
The importance of being empirical
After blogging last time about the importance of avoiding stress and maintaining some sort of balance, this time I find myself thinking about just how important it is for me to keep playing. I have recently rediscovered my passion for several musical traditions that I hadn’t been engaged with for several years. The reason for [...]
Avoiding stress in the 21st Century rush
Read a very interesting post today by Jason Teitelman at http://www.blogcatalog.com/community/technology-and-stress-unplug-yourself/ I probably have a rather strange perspective now with my interests and experience (in no particular order) in music technology, education, teaching, management, research but yet also – full time student and father of 3 boys (ages 7 6 and 4) – also full [...]
Easy sharing for Music Technology Educators
Have you come across Zotero? If you haven’t it is a plugin for Firefox that I could not do without. It allows you to collect your web resources together in one place, synchronize them between computers, add notes, even store related PDFs, files, images, and links in your library. You can then use the Zotero [...]
Recordings in the classroom without the hassle
In case you haven’t come across Spotify, I thought I would pass on the word. For some time now I have been using Spotify, which is in internet based service that provides instant access to a library of music. For example, say you want a recording of a Beethoven quartet…search for “Beethoven Quartet” and 2217 [...]
Misa guitar – the future just round the corner?
Some months ago I had a conversation with a friend that went something like this: “Wouldn’t it be great if someone would design an instrument that used a touch screen interface to extend the resources that trained musicians already find in traditional instruments”. In other words, using technology to extend and transform our opportunities rather [...]
Garageband for windows?
I am often asked if I know of any programs for windows that are similar to Garageband. Well, if you have the luxury of a small budget then I would recommend mixcraft at the moment. The screen feels just as streamlined as Garageband. They have taken out a lot of the ‘clutter’ of other sequencers [...]
How do you…? (W3# 9-52 )
One of the questions teachers frequently ask me when I run courses is “How do you….?” usually followed by some variation of video, audio, downloading editing and making useful in the classroom. Thinking about this allowed me to realize that I have come across lots of discussions online which celebrate the many resources available online [...]
Quick note: time critical!
Following an inset I ran a couple of weeks ago Charles kindly told me that the latest edition of computer music has “an extensive article on mobile music looking at apps for various types of hand held devices. It’s very useful and expands on some of the apps we covered as well as looking at [...]
How good are your sounds?
A while ago I came across this video and stored it away as I thought it would come in useful at some point. At the time I thought it was pretty neat but not much more… I revisited this by chance the other day after running a seminar on using new technologies for music teaching [...]
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