music education

We know what orchestras are but would could they be? From the Sound Systems Website: “American orchestras face challenges relative to diversity, equity, relevance, sustainability. How do the embodied and cultural roles of performers and artists—enactors of aesthetic memories and futures—need to be reimagined and centered? What is the future of the orchestra?  Working in collaboration with future-oriented musician Alex Laing, the Center for Science and the Imagination hosted a two-day speculative futures workshop in April 2023, which served as the… Read More »Futures of Orchestras?!(Sound Systems)

Here’s a link to additional details on my research study and design that I’m presenting on at NAfME 2024.

How might we support creativity in large ensembles? What if students could co-create music with a conductor without staff notation or written music altogether? Perhaps novel in K-12 settings, ensemble-based improvisation exists in diverse musical cultures. What might we learn from conduction, a sophisticated gestural system that Butch Morris developed to facilitate improvisation and creation in a large ensemble setting? I first experienced conduction years ago at NYC’s Knitting Factory. I was in one of the lower floor performance spaces… Read More »Improvisation in Ensembles: Conduction