Music Tech Café

10/03/2024

October 8: “Creating Original Music Opportunities for Beginning Music Students”

Join us for our annual NAfME Council for Music Composition fall webinar! Join us to hear presentations from Janice Smith and Patrick Blim-Hockberger (Mr. 😎 about working with our youngest and beginning general, choral, and instrumental musicians.

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Join us for our annual NAfME Council for Music Composition fall webinar! Join us to hear presentations from Janice Smith and Patrick Blim-Hockberger (Mr. B) about working with our youngest and beginning general, choral, and instrumental musicians. Patrick Blim-Hockberger is a music teacher at Louisv...

05/01/2024

Now a coder working to build music education environments for VR, wish I could have done this years ago. My granddaughter took five years of coding. Now she’s a clarinet player and about to start middle school. Thx for the article, Les!

The latest neuroscience shows that learning a musical instrument increases brain power.

12/12/2023

We hope you will consider joining us at Los Angeles County High School for the Arts (LACHSA) in 2024!
Applications open! LACHSA is an exciting place to be.

05/30/2023

Join us for Music Tech Café, a workshop for music educators interested in integrating creative music making into K-12 classrooms and university coursework.

9:00-3:00 pm, Monday and Tuesday, June 12 and June 13, 2023

Dr. Alexander Koops
Dr. Lisa A. Crawford

For further information and registration, follow this link to APU Website:
https://www.azusaconservatory.org/music-tech-cafe.html

01/05/2021

The Okee Dokee Brothers, Alastair Moock and Dog on Fleas — three of five acts nominated in the best children's album category — share their equity-based rationalizations for declining the ballot.

05/22/2020

Here is a great idea for your summer reading!

Composition Concepts for Band and Orchestra: Incorporating Creativity in Ensemble Settings

by Alexander Koops (Author), John L. Whitener

05/22/2020

Michelle Kashub and Janice Smith's work from 2009 is a good review for me today!

A Principled Approach to Teaching Music Composition to Children
Kaschub, Michele; Smith, Janice P.
Research and Issues in Music Education, v7 n1 Sep 2009

Building on an apposition of the theories of neurobiologist Antonio Damasio and music theorist Heinrich Schenker, we posit a new model for developing composition instruction based upon the organic connections between humans and music. Parallels are drawn between Damasio's theory of consciousness in....