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Current Music and Audio Technology Students and Educators Need To Know

In the previous decade a lot has actually altered in music and audio technology as it relates to education at the secondary and post-secondary levels, and professional usage.

The days of MIDI, electric guitar, and digital piano labs have waned with the U.S. adoption of Chromebooks in schools. It is most likely you’ll find one-to-one Chrome gadgets, or less most likely Mac or Windows computers, and cards or racks of music and audio tech equipment for to grab as they are quickly released in a class or practice rooms.

It is also a growing number of common to see conventional analog copper audio cables for instruments, mics, mixers, and speakers, replaced-at least in part-by networked Audio-over-IP (AoIP) systems where audio journeys over basic ethernet cables that belong to a school or campus network. This innovation permits very high-quality audio signals to take a trip from device to gadget that connects to a structure ethernet network anywhere. While not a brand-new development, increasingly more facilities are utilizing AoIP in auditoriums, classrooms, recording studios, and even in outside efficiency places or on the marching band field.

Relatively brand-new for recording, mixing, playback, and live performance is creating and producing music for listeners and audiences, consisting of Dolby Atmos Music, Apple Spatial Audio, and Sony’s 360 Virtual Mix Environment (VME). All these technologies enable totally immersive audio listening experiences where you hear and feel sound originating from all around you with speakers or earphones or earbuds.

Moreover, the not-so-new phenomenon of students creating, producing and releasing podcasts has actually exploded in secondary schools and college and university programs in music education and most all other scholastic disciplines.

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How do brand-new learning environments with MIDI instruments and audio devices, along with networked audio, fit into knowing, carrying out, tape-recording, and sharing your students’ and ensembles’ music? Here are seven quick examples that explain how schools and schools are innovating with audio and music innovation in teaching and learning:

Greenwich High School, Connecticut, provides a total music and audio technology experience: Barbara Friedman, career music teacher at the high school, uses her students abilities in everything from fundamental music and audio innovation abilities to innovative recording and podcasting, and she recounts her experience and offers recommendations in her well-respected book, Teaching Music Through Composition: A Curriculum Using Technology.
Torrington High School, Connecticut, provides ingenious podcasting and storytelling from their music program for all scholastic disciplines. Music teacher Wayne Splettstoeszer was forced to innovate his program throughout the pandemic, and the result is significant cross-curricular collaborations with other scholastic disciplines at the high school, with trainees utilizing podcasting to inform stories for all varieties of tasks and tasks, from history and social studies to science and mathematics, and more.
Ithaca College in Upstate New York records and archives more than 500 efficiencies each scholastic year at the James J. Whalen Centre for Music. Brian Dozoretz, Manager of Recording Services, and Michael Caporizzo, Director of Sound Recording Technology, transitioned their recording infrastructure to Audio-over-IP, dramatically increasing the quality and versatility of recording everything from recitals to shows, to class sessions and trainee performances.
Middle Tennessee State University (MTSU) in Murfreesboro offers students preprofessional experiences at Bonnaroo, where trainees travel to the renowned festival and record and stream phase performances.
Career and Technical Education (CTE) music and audio pathways continue to grow nationwide, with students preparing for community college, institution of higher learning, and professional operate in music, audio, media production, and much more.
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For more information about current and burgeoning innovations in music and audio, there are substantial resources available from:

The Technology Institute for Music Educators (TI: ME).
The Association for Popular Music Education (APME).
The MIDI Association.
The Audio Engineering Society (AES).
The National Association of Music Merchants

About the author:

Dr. Lee Whitmore is a music, audio, imaginative digital media, and education thought leader. He’s the Vice President for education at Focusrite Group, which includes Focusrite, Novation, Sequential, Oberheim, ADAM Audio, Martin Audio, TiMax, panLab, Optimal Audio, and Linea Research.

With a career that covers three years, his expert projects have actually consisted of leadership positions at music industry business Avid, Sibelius, and Korg USA, as well as the GRAMMY Music Education Coalition and Berklee College of Music. He has a doctorate from Columbia University Teachers College in music education and innovation. Because music has actually significantly impacted his personal life and profession, Lee is a vocal advocate for access to music and related arts for all young people.

Lee is an author, teacher, speaker, and market and education executive. A few of his recent writing consists of pieces for the Inter-American Development Bank, the Hechinger Report, and the Washington Post.

Active in service to music, community, and education, Lee is a We Make sounds board member, an executive board member of The MIDI Association, also functioning as its volunteer chief monetary officer, and leading its MIDI in Music Education (MiME) Special Interest Group.

Contact Lee at lee.whitmore@focusritegroup.com.

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