Current Music and Audio Technology Students and Educators Need To Know
In the previous years a lot has actually altered in music and audio technology as it pertains to education at the secondary and post-secondary levels, and professional use.
The days of MIDI, electric guitar, and digital piano labs have actually subsided with the U.S. adoption of Chromebooks in schools. It is most likely you’ll discover one-to-one Chrome devices, or less likely Mac or Windows computer systems, and cards or racks of music and audio tech gear for trainees to grab as they are rapidly deployed in a classroom or practice rooms.
It is likewise more and more common to see traditional analog copper audio cable televisions for instruments, mics, mixers, and speakers, replaced-at least in part-by networked Audio-over-IP (AoIP) systems in which audio travels over standard ethernet cables that are part of a school or campus network. This innovation allows very top quality audio signals to travel from device to device that links to a building ethernet network anywhere. While not a brand-new innovation, increasingly more facilities are utilizing AoIP in auditoriums, class, taping studios, and even in outdoor efficiency areas or on the marching band field.
Relatively new for recording, blending, 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 innovations allow for totally immersive audio listening experiences wherein you hear and feel sound originating from all around you with speakers or earphones or earbuds.
Moreover, the not-so-new phenomenon of trainees creating, producing and releasing podcasts has actually exploded in secondary schools and college and university programs in music education and most all other academic disciplines.
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How do new finding out environments with MIDI instruments and audio gadgets, in addition to networked audio, suit knowing, carrying out, tape-recording, and sharing your trainees’ and ensembles’ music? Here are seven short examples that explain how schools and campuses are innovating with audio and music innovation in mentor and knowing:
Greenwich High School, Connecticut, offers a complete music and audio innovation experience: Barbara Friedman, career music teacher at the high school, provides her students skills in everything from standard music and audio innovation abilities to sophisticated 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, offers innovative podcasting and storytelling from their music program for all scholastic subject areas. Music educator Wayne Splettstoeszer was required to innovate his program during the pandemic, and the result is significant cross-curricular cooperations with other academic disciplines at the high school, with trainees utilizing podcasting to inform stories for all varieties of tasks and jobs, from history and social research studies to science and mathematics, and more.
Ithaca College in Upstate New york city records and archives more than 500 efficiencies each academic 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, drastically increasing the quality and flexibility of catching everything from recitals to performances, to class sessions and student efficiencies.
Middle Tennessee State University (MTSU) in Murfreesboro supplies trainees preprofessional experiences at Bonnaroo, where students take a trip to the popular festival and record and stream stage efficiencies.
Career and Technical Education (CTE) music and audio paths continue to grow across the country, with students getting ready for neighborhood college, institution of higher learning, and professional work in music, audio, media production, and a lot more.
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For more information about existing and burgeoning innovations in music and audio, there are considerable resources readily available from:
The Technology Institute for Music Educators (TI: ME).
The Association for 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, creative digital media, and education thought leader. He’s the Vice President for at Focusrite Group, that 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 consisted of leadership positions at music market companies 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 technology. Because music has drastically affected his personal life and profession, Lee is a singing supporter for access to music and related arts for all youths.
Lee is an author, teacher, speaker, and industry and education executive. A few of his current writing consists of pieces for the Inter-American Development Bank, the Hechinger Report, and the Washington Post.
Active in service to music, neighborhood, and education, Lee is a We Make sounds board member, an executive board member of The MIDI Association, likewise serving 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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