Gary Stager on how computers will save music education; express yourself during your summer vacation!One of the biggest lies in education is that computers are a threat to school art and music. Budget cuts, misplaced mis·place tr.v. mis·placed, mis·plac·ing, mis·plac·es 1. a. To put into a wrong place: misplace punctuation in a sentence. b. academic priorities or an over-emphasis on standardized testing have put the squeeze on arts programs yet I have seen no credible evidence that a choice has been made between computers and human expression. It was a guidance counselor guidance counselor Child psychology A school worker trained to screen, evaluate and advise students on career and academic matters , not a PC, who tried to convince my parents that I should spend time in a daily study hall rather than a music theory class. Computers may save school arts and will offer unprecedented opportunities for creative development. Forms of human expression previously off-limits to all but the most talented and elite members of society are now accessible even to young children. Animation, filmmaking, music composition, digital imaging and audio broadcasting are within reach of everybody. Ingenious software such as iLife '05 and hardware improvements turn schoolbags into portable media studios. The Web informs us of new tools, inspiration and creative communities to support our efforts. The Internet also offers collaborators and a limitless potential audience for our creative output. The democratization de·moc·ra·tize tr.v. de·moc·ra·tized, de·moc·ra·tiz·ing, de·moc·ra·tiz·es To make democratic. de·moc of publishing and expansion of the learning community affording unprecedented collaboration and access to expertise represents the most valuable use of the Web. Innovations abound. It is up to us to help students take advantage of emerging technology. NOTE: You may not be able to do some of these things "These Things" is an EP by She Wants Revenge, released in 2005 by Perfect Kiss, a subsidiary of Geffen Records. Music Video The music video stars Shirley Manson, lead singer of the band Garbage. Track Listing 1. "These Things [Radio Edit]" - 3:17 2. at work since school network policies often prohibit the interesting use of computers. Free and "nearly free" software like Finale NotePad The text editor that comes with Windows. It is a very elementary utility, but gets the job done most of the time. See text editor and WordPad. (text, tool) Notepad - The very basic text editor supplied with Microsoft Windows. , GarageBand, Acid and others allow students to enter the world of music composition. SmartMusic allows kids to practice along with sensitive accompaniment and e-marl their session to a teacher. See the resource box below for these urls and other sites that offer loops, instrument sounds and advice to share student compositions. Student-composed music may be used to score their films. Elementary school elementary school: see school. kids at the Willows School in Los Angeles Los Angeles (lôs ăn`jələs, lŏs, ăn`jəlēz'), city (1990 pop. 3,485,398), seat of Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1850. watch projected extreme sports extreme sports Sports events characterized by high speed or high risk. Such sports include aggressive inline skating, wakeboarding, street luge, skateboarding, and freestyle bicycle events (wherein tricks such as back flips are performed on a bicycle). footage, sans audio, and improvise scores on desktop MIDI keyboards. Students at the American School of Bombay downloaded archival audio of historic speeches and then used music composition software to bring history to life. Digital apprenticeship Messing about with music alone is one thing, but now students may apprentice with expert artists as well. Through the centuries art and music was funded by the patronage of the rich and powerful. The Interact revives this practice and democratizes it. Now amateurs may not only purchase recordings by their favorite artists via the Web, but they may participate in the artistic process through interaction with the artist, sheet music and videoclips of recording sessions. Students may even take lessons online from one of the world's finest World's Finest may refer to:
Brian Michael Lynch at Artistshare. This should inspire educators to think of new forms of collaboration and publishing. Berklee College of Music Berklee College of Music, founded in 1945, is an independent music college in Boston, Massachusetts, with many prominent faculty, staff, alumni, and visiting artists. It has an enrollment of approximately 3,900 students and a 2004 faculty of approximately 430. offers world-class courses in music, digital audio production and even GarageBand for educators online. Students, 15 and older, can take college-level courses from school or home. Perhaps the most remarkable development in the democratization of art comes to us courtesy of the rock band, Nine Inch Nails. The band recently released their current single, The Hand that Feeds, online in GarageBand format. Children may not only "read" the technical aspects of a hit recording on their computer screen, but they are able to manipulate the song in order to create new music. Such acts of deconstruction and reconstruction scaffold the learning of music composition in unprecedented ways. Whatever your musical tastes, this offers revolutionary access to the creative process. Web Resources * iLife '05 www.apple.com/ilife * Finale NotePad www.finalenotepad.com * GarageBand www.apple.com/GarageBand * Acid mediasoftware.sonypictures.com/ * ICompositions www.icompositions.com * Acid Fanatic www.acidfanatic.com * SmartMusic www.smartmusic.com * Brian Lynch at Artistshare http://brianlynch.artistshare.com/ * Berklee College of Music www.berkleemusic.com * Nine Inch Nails www.nin.com/current/ Gary Stager, gary@stager.org, is editor-at-large and an adjunct professor at Pepperdine University Pepperdine University is a private institution of higher learning affiliated with the Church of Christ in unincorporated Los Angeles County, California, United States. The university's location overlooks the Pacific Ocean and is adjacent to the city limits of Malibu. . |
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