Music Education, Oct 13 2018
Music Community Lab presents an afternoon exploring the intersection of music, technology, education and creativity.
Featuring talks and workshops from practitioners, as well as open time for discussion, hacking, collaboration, and serendipity. This event will offer a diverse range of perspectives on music education across NYC-area institutions and music/education-adjacent disciplines.
We invite educators to give an overview of their work/programs, and anyone with an interest in these topics to join as we re-imagine music education together!
Saturday October 13th, 2018 12pm - 5pm 45 W 18th St, New York NY Free w/ RSVP! All are welcome, but capacity is limited.Tentative Schedule
Tentative Schedule 11:30 AM - Doors Open 12:00 PM - Talks 2:00 PM - Workshops / Un-Conference / Hacking 4:30 PM - Wrap-up / Share-out
Talks [12 PM]
Tinkering At the Boundary of Physics and Music Aatish Bhatia | Science Writer & Physicist I'm co-teaching a new lab course in Princeton's Music department about the science of musical instruments, perception and synthesis. Although I'm a scientist by training and have no formal music training, I love collaborating with artists and musicians, and will share work from some recent interdisciplinary teaching and research collaborations. Resources from this talk can be found here.
POWERFUL: Acknowledging and Addressing Systemic Racism through Music Alice Tsui | Music Teacher at PS 532 New Bridges Elementary and DMA Student in Music Education at Boston University Music can be used as a powerful means to acknowledge and address systemic racism. We will learn the chorus of the song "Powerful," and discuss its implications for learning, discussion, and social action in the music classroom.
TPACK and Music Ed: Going beyond digital sheet music and flash cards Andrea Maas | Crane School of Music, Potsdam This talk will attempt to address the question: How can we help new teachers bridge the gap between Technology, Pedagogy, and Content Knowledge to use technology to EXPAND and ENHANCE the ways they teach music?
Educating Unlikely Audiences In Songwriting Johannes Flecker | Musician & Founding Managing Director, Sound Leadership Experience why songwriting is a great tool to educate absolute beginners in musical storytelling and how it is used to overcome creative inhibitions.
Creating Opportunities in Digital Music Mark DeNardo | Composer, Designer & Educator As an #ems (electronic music school) Mentor for Teenage Engineering, I will share my experiences, discuss my pedagogy, and describe my process of developing curriculum for teaching digital music.
Sonic Arts For All: Music Accessibility Through Technology Max Alper | Founder & Director, Sonic Arts for All An overview of the work Sonic Arts For All has been doing as a music education organization both in New York and Puerto Rico. Topics include addressing special education through music technology, incorporating music fundamentals into music production, and the importance of respecting local music cultures as music educators.
Contradictions in Public School Music Education Mary Catherine Stoumbos | PhD Candidate in Ethnomusicology, Columbia University State Departments of Education expect a rigorous music curriculum without providing the financial support necessary to effectively teach it, while model curricula are often riddled with approaches to music education that reproduce biased cultural hierarchies. Rethinking music education requires not only rethinking the suggested content and language of delivery, but also carefully examining expectations and standards for instruction while supplying the financial support necessary to execute such instruction.
Affordances of Musical Frameworks/Encouraging the Nonstandard Melody Loveless | Musician, Artist & Educator I will discuss how music technology that encourages nonstandard forms of music can benefit music education by illuminating affordances and constraints within traditional musical frameworks and encouraging students to create their own frameworks. Throughout this talk, I will show examples of technologies, with an emphasis on free music technologies and resources. Resources from this talk can be found here: http://bit.ly/nonstandardmelody
Workshops [2 PM]
Designing Virtual Instruments with Scratch Josh Emanuel | Music Teacher, Nanuet Union Free School District & PhD Student, NYU The purpose of this workshop is to provide practicing teachers with the rationale, skills, and resources to introduce basic computer programming into their music curricula. Participants will learn why and how to use Scratch, a free online programming language, to teach students how to create virtual instruments. Please bring a laptop.
Teaching Code and Music with Python MC Richard Achée | Creator of Python MC Python MC is a free online introduction to computer programming ideally suited for ages 12-18. During this session, we'll give an overview of the curriculum, and dive into a lesson creating music tracks in EarSketch, an educational music and coding platform from Georgia Tech. Please bring a laptop.
Free with RSVP! All are welcome (but capacity is limited!).