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I ended up spending most of my attention listening to the performance and engaging with the live chat but here is a collection of the few posts I wrote while live blogging the concert. I’ll write a post in the next day or two to reflect on the experience. Overall I found the live chat with other audience members and moderator wonderfully engaging and thought it added an entirely new layer to the concert experience. I’m here in Gammage Hall… Read More »Liveblogging a concert experience….

When I worked on a “Copyrights and Wrongs” project with my 7th grade general music students several years ago, one of the various issues we focused on was how they would choose to treat their own music in terms of rights management. We discussed various positions and potential pros and cons of copyrighting or applying creative commons licenses to their music. Ultimately they had to make their own final decisions of what they might do to their own music. The… Read More »A current copyright choice: To give or not to give up the rights to one's music

I apologize for the lack of posting in over a month. October was a busy month and November is starting off the same! October was also a month of wonderful conferences. I still have a smile on my face from the New Horizons Band performance at the CIC conference which took place at the start of the month. Various ways of thinking about music education beyond schools and considering musical practices in our communities were discussed. The CARMU conference on… Read More »October Conferences!

Have you ever played a turntable? You can now via the web! That’s right, every time this website is loaded from September 21st through November 25th TurntablePC, an interactive art project, will be triggered to manipulate an LP via the web in an art museum in Denmark. TurntablistPC was developed by Mogens Jacobsen. Every since I ordered a pair of Technic 1200 turntables and a mixer (under the district instrumental budget) for the general music program I used to teach,… Read More »Working the Decks on This Blog: Web-Based Turntablism and more…