Electronic Music School

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Will Kuhn ◽  
Ethan Hein
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Electronic Music ◽  
Music Technology ◽  
Digital Audio ◽  
State University ◽  
New York University ◽  
Music School ◽  
Technology Program ◽  
College Age ◽  
Digital Audio Workstation

This book is a practical blueprint for teachers who want to begin teaching project-based music technology, production, and songwriting to secondary and college-age students. It aims to inspire teachers to expand beyond the usual ensemble offerings and to create a culture of unique creativity at their schools. The approach primarily draws upon the authors’ experiences developing and implementing the music technology program at Lebanon (Ohio) High School, one of the nation’s largest secondary-level programs, and courses at New York University and Montclair State University. While the lesson templates can be used with any hardware and software setup, the popular digital audio workstation Ableton Live is used for specific examples and screenshots.

NEWS AND ANNOUNCEMENTS

PEDIATRICS ◽  
1949 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 142-144
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Medical Center ◽  
Associate Professor ◽  
Johns Hopkins Hospital ◽  
State University ◽  
New York University ◽  
Louisiana State University ◽  
School Of Medicine ◽  
National Foundation ◽  
Infantile Paralysis

The National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis has awarded postgraduate fellowships in the fields of scientific research, physical medicine and public health. Three of the new fellows will devote their time to research projects in the field of pediatrics. Dr. John J. Osborn, of Larchmont, N.Y., has already begun his project at New York University—Bellevue Medical Center under Drs. L. Emmett Holt, Jr., Professor of Pediatrics, and Colin MacLeod, Professor of Microbiology; Dr. Paul Harold Hardy, Jr., of Baltimore, Md., and Dr. David I. Schrum, of Houston, Texas, will start their work July 1, respectively, at Johns Hopkins Hospital, under Drs. Francis F. Schwentker, Pediatrician-in-Chief, and Horace L. Hodes, Associate Professor of Pediatrics; and at Louisiana State University School of Medicine under Drs. Myron E. Wegman, Professor of Pediatrics, and G. John Buddingh, Professor of Microbiology.

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2021 ◽  
Vol 65 (3) ◽  
pp. 178-180
Author(s):  
Jim Short
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
New Brunswick ◽  
The Sun ◽  
State University ◽  
New York University ◽  
Black Theater ◽  
Cambridge University ◽  
Rutgers University ◽  
Northwestern University

Tech You Will Need for Your Program

2021 ◽  
pp. 27-39
Author(s):  
Will Kuhn ◽  
Ethan Hein
Keyword(s):  
Music Teachers ◽  
Music Technology ◽  
Digital Audio ◽  
Music Production ◽  
Creative Music ◽  
Wear And Tear ◽  
Digital Audio Workstation ◽  
Practical Recommendations

This chapter presents an optimal equipment list for establishing a creative music technology lab. While preservice music teachers are taught how to purchase and maintain instruments, they are rarely given equivalent advice for music production tools. This chapter provides practical recommendations for purchasing and maintaining hardware, software, and furniture, including computers, digital audio workstation software, headphones, MIDI controllers, microphones, tables, podiums, display screens, and soundproofing. Suggestions are given for arrangement and design of the overall space as well as design of individual workstations. The chapter also includes suggestions for managing wear and tear on equipment, for maintenance and cleaning routines, and for sustainable budgeting. Finally, for situations where the optimal setup is not immediately attainable, the various items described here are ranked in terms of priority.

Future-proofing the Electronic Music School

2021 ◽  
pp. 226-231
Author(s):  
Will Kuhn ◽  
Ethan Hein
Keyword(s):  
Popular Culture ◽  
Hip Hop ◽  
Electronic Music ◽  
Lesson Plan ◽  
Rapid Evolution ◽  
Music Technology ◽  
Cultural Continuity ◽  
Music School ◽  
New Development ◽  
Student Cohorts

A central difficulty of building a curriculum around current popular music styles is the rapid evolution of those styles. In this chapter, we give strategies for maintaining a music technology program’s cultural relevance over longer time spans, without rewriting every lesson plan every year. Rather than trying to respond to every new development in popular culture, we propose that teachers follow the hip-hop ethos of maintaining freshness. And rather than chasing novelty, we suggest that teachers look for common threads across popular styles and trends, and teach to those commonalities. We also propose identifying out-of-date styles that have become appealingly retro, since these can become a long-lasting feature of the curriculum without losing freshness. We also give strategies for maintaining cultural continuity as student cohorts graduate, and how the same set of technical skills can underlie a wide variety of genre-based projects. Finally, we address broader problems like adapting to new teaching formats and the ramifications of committing to a software platform.

Electric Circus, Electric Ear and the Intermedia Center in Late-1960s New York

Leonardo ◽  
2012 ◽  
Vol 45 (1) ◽  
pp. 50-56 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert J. Gluck
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
San Francisco ◽  
Electronic Music ◽  
New Music ◽  
New York University ◽  
Monday Evening ◽  
Artistic Values

Composer Morton Subotnick moved to New York in 1966 for a brief but productive stay, establishing a small but notable electronic music studio affiliated with New York University. It was built around an early Buchla system and became Subotnick's personal workspace and a creative home for a cluster of emerging young composers. Subotnick also provided artistic direction for a new multimedia discoteque, the Electric Circus, an outgrowth of ideas he formulated earlier at the San Francisco Tape Music Center. A Monday evening series at the Circus, Electric Ear, helped spawn a cluster of venues for new music and multimedia. While the NYU studio and Electric Ear represent examples of centers operating outside commercial forces, the Electric Circus was entrepreneurial in nature, which ultimately compromised its artistic values.

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