IMPACT Conference 2017

Music Composition with technology opens the door to music education for all students of the current generation, providing the opportunity to create, learn and apply knowledge, while creating a musical gestalt. Examples of student work, videos, and music will engage the audience, and Fennell will explore how to develop well-rounded musicians through composition, while creating proficient composers. Participants will observe and listen to key student work samples, including the breakdown of a sequenced curriculum that develops composition skills, making it accessible for all learners and levels. Music Composition – a creative approach to music education for all students!

This session will look at the many ways Soundtrap.com has been used in an elementary and middle school environment to enhance creativity, collaboration in not only the music program, but also P.E. Art, Science, Technology Integration and much more. For over a decade the students at Go Like The Wind School in Ann Arbor, MI. have used multiple platforms and technologies to create original music. Then along came Soundtrap.com and the game changed. Not only have they been creating more original music, but they have also used this empowering tool to enhance presentations, create interactive art projects, study soundwaves in science class and collaborate with other schools. Many examples will be given of how this one platform can change the landscape of creativity school-wide.

Readout Algorithm in Elementary Music Education Kids in modern world should receive the most effective education they deserve. They are capable to perceive information faster, with cross-modal processing,activating all senses at once : visual perception, audio analyzers , neuromotor functions. https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/digital-key-initial-music-education-stepanov-sergey?trk=prof-post http://educationinjapan.wordpress.com/2011/02/04/considering-the-benefits-of-digital-music-grammar-in-a-music-educational-program/ NeuromusicGroup Reflection Ukraine Neuromusic for Kids

Rising from the Ashes is a cycle of songs that explores the lived experience of adolescents who have had adverse childhood experiences. For this performance, I will be remixing original songs of teenage songwriters who I worked with in music therapy to reveal a psychological journey from protecting vulnerability and exploring abandonment, to developing faith and love. It is my hope that audiences will gain empathy for adolescents that are typically viewed as “troubled teens” as their trails, tribulations, and rewards are revealed through sound and song. Audiences will have an opportunity to remix a song from the study and discuss the results of the study.

This session will explore the intersection of multimedia technology and traditional music teaching methods in the Pre-K classroom. It will include examples of interactive themed projects using Makey Makey, Google Earth Video Capture and images to enhance lessons on world music, large screen video projection with traditional instrument play so that kids can jam with musicians around the world, real time and recorded video for general music lessons and exposure to new musicians and instruments. We will talk about using websites and software like Hooktheory.com, ireal pro, Band in a Box, Logic, and more with young music makers. The creative and playful introduction of these cutting edge technologies make classes stimulating and impressive, abundantly augment the educator’s toolbox for developing Pre-K cognitive building blocks, and are a fun way of introducing children to modern devices and ideas.

Music is a universal language that should be composed, created and celebrated in classrooms across the globe. Soundtrap is an online audio recording studio that amplifies student creativity and allows for collaborations. This platform, originally created by musicians for musicians, has embraced the limitless possibilities of classroom use, to reach all learners across multiple grade and subject areas in academic and creative ways to maximize project based learning. We will take some time to play with the tool to explore meaningful ways of using it in your classroom. You don’t want to miss this electric, high energy hands-on session! How can you amplify student learning with Soundtrap!?

This hands-on demo is designed to help you cater your music curriculum to validate and encourage individual students interests and strengths. Participants will act as “students” and move through three different mini-lessons that encourages students to use their individual strengths and interests to apply their unique musical voice to contribute to a student-run record label. The program is designed specifically to simultaneously validate each student’s musical experiences and create accountability by transforming each student into an active member of a fully functioning record label. Teachers will learn the roles of students as real-life producers, performers, engineers, and promoters of music.

Whether it is lack of student interest, course duration, or many other reasons, many music educators have discovered that teaching music appreciation courses can be challenging. Music appreciation courses, however, have the potential to forge connections over disciplines, social divides, distance, and time. Over the past eleven years, I have researched and field-tested many engaging instructional and curricular approaches to unlocking this potential. I would like to share ideas that work.

Beatboxing champions Kaila Mullady and Mark Martin share and demonstrate their experiences combining the worlds of beatboxing and speech therapy.  They blur the lines between language and music in their fun and interactive session by teaching us how to imitate instruments and sound effects to create sonic landscapes with our mouths.    

Teachers and students have the unprecedented ability to connect with professional musicians as a way to augment and intensify their music education experience. In this session we will explore methods, pedagogy and technology tools that put students at the center of their creative exploration and gives them access to professional ensembles. We will cover YCIW’s pedagogy and curriculum, NYU Musedlab’s innovative instruments like aQEWRTYon and others, as well as the more standard web tools Noteflight and Soundtrap. The session will feature real world student examples from students, teachers and ensembles from around the US and beyond. Session participants are encouraged to bring a laptop and take part in an interactive activity. Our aim will be to impart actionable items that both teachers and professional ensembles can use as part of their work.

This clinic provides teachers with a sequenced method and resource materials to teach jazz songs, style, and improvisation by ear in the same way that students learn to speak their native language. This method will be demonstrated using live presentation as well as web-based video curriculum.

Workshop about how silence can be used creatively in music for performance, composition and improvisation

Entrepreneurship is a fundamental element of the artistic identity and essential to the proliferation of one’s own musical or artistic skills. In the growing trend of entrepreneurship integrated into curricula throughout higher education, it is important to remember that in the arts, entrepreneurship is unique in the role it take in shaping students’ professional identities as well as their sense of social efficacy. This presentation will present an engaging investigation as to why arts entrepreneurship must be more than focusing on developing particular skill sets, career training, or artistic portfolio development. We will investigate the context in which artists of all stripes have historically applied their entrepreneurial skills. We will examine how the artistic process and growth are centered around key themes of entrepreneurship including how social entrepreneurship experiences can catalyze artistic productivity.

Ableton Live is known as an electronic music production tool, but it has untapped potential for music educators working with all styles of music. This workshop explores uses of Live for learning from recordings, extracting MIDI from audio, and accessible methods for beginners to explore composition and form.

We will present the latest in assistive technology for that makes monitored music therapy available to every child in the USA.

Students, regardless of ability, attend Honors Musical Festivals throughout the world. Based on a love of music as a common language and fellowship, attendees learn how to create opportunities for students, directors, and school communities to grow as musicians through diversity and social issues.

In this hands-on session, participants will explore ComposionCraft – a music composition Minecraft modification (Mod) designed by the University of Arkansas’ Music Education and Tesseract programs. The modification provides music teachers with necessary crosswalks between students’ experiences playing Minecraft and learning to compose and create music in a new and unique way. Additionally, CompositionCraft provides a unique experience for students to connect to STEAM initiatives and the artistic processes in the National Core Arts Standards. For children, Minecraft is a fun and addicting video game where users play alone or together with friends. For educators, it can be a learning environment, design tool, and activity that fosters 21st century skills of critical thinking, collaboration, communication, and creativity. At its core, Minecraft is about placing and mining blocks. This is similar to ways composers place and mine musical elements to create a new piece of music. The game world consists of 3D objects—mainly blocks—that represent building materials. Players gather material blocks and use them to form various constructions. In music, musicians gather musical elements and use them to form various constructions within music. Incorporating Minecraft into music classrooms provides students opportunities to connect two types of “architectures” - spatial-visual structure (building an online world using Minecraft) and musical structure (composing music). Both “architectures” share similar artistic processes within the National Core Arts Standards. An example of CompositionCraft may be viewed at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vXR9kqwpauY.

Participants will need be have Minecraft Java Edition which can be purchased at https://minecraft.net/en-us/ for $26.95 and Minecraft Forge version 1.8.9 (free) from https://files.minecraftforge.net/. I would like those attending my hands-on session to be able to play the mod and then discuss their experience. 
Google Drive link: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/0BxoAIzy9tsLbTkxUa1E0NzBicVE?usp=sharing

This interactive workshop is centered on the notion that the arts can be powerful vehicles for issues of justice and for inciting social change. The two presenters will detail the ways in which they approach impact and the arts in a compulsory, integrative arts course at a public high school. In this course, students are required to study protest works and to create their own protest works to be discussed amongst peers and displayed/performed in an appropriate setting. Workshop attendees will gain valuable tools for presenting protest, analyzing protest works with adolescent students, and creating protest works with students of all ages. In addition, attendees will experience the process of creating either an aural or visual protest work to share with others in attendance. The intersection of visual art and music provides a unique collaboration that can be applied to a variety of educational settings. The presenters will close with a discussion of assessment regarding creative work and the potential applications in both the fields of music and visual arts.

Art has always been a catalyst of social change and revolution, but how can art be used to create lasting impact in our communities, especially in this political climate?

In this workshop, participants will experience the Activate Framework, a structure for engaging youth, educators and community organizations.  This  process of participatory artmaking will respond to critical social and political issues, aimed at creating lasting change in their communities.  Led by digital natives, we will use media examples from the Trump administration as prompts to develop artistic campaigns, in a manner accessible to all.

This session will be representing reflective research practices of my student teaching in a K-5 general music classroom. I will introduce the use of the Nordoff-Robbins approach to music therapy (NRMT), also known as creative music therapy, and its use of improvisation as applied in an elementary general music class. Theoretical and practical information about the application of such improvisational techniques will be discussed during the process that bodes positive growth and development.

Popular music education projects and curriculum continue to develop and expand across universities, yet pre-service teachers who experience these courses often perceive musical processes used in popular music making as irrelevant in more traditional mediums (e.g., band). The purpose of this presentation is to offer a project that cross-pollinates musical behaviors and processes between general music and instrumental methods courses using video game music composition. Using littleBits Synth Kits, pre-service teachers in an elementary general music course created scoring blocks—introduction, loop, transition, tag—and aligned these blocks with a student-chosen videogame. This foundation was then passed to pre-service teachers in a beginning instrumental methods course to compose and improvise acoustic layers indicative of beginning band students. Videos of completed projects will be provided as examples. Additionally I will present a working curriculum for this videogame music project as well as offer student responses, modifications to the project, and implications for pre-service music educators and music education.

Liberation Drum Circles engages youth in social justice activism through community drumming and singing circles aimed to empower them in to bring change into their own communities. Through the process of being together, in rhythm, we will defend our human rights in the struggle for collective liberation. Liberation Drum Circles is equal parts community music school, peace and justice circle, fertile ground, and cultural group. 

Our Five Tangibles: PLAYS 
Percussion: We believe in drumming in community as a way to build bridges amongst people, and heal the world.
Liberation: We are committed to defending the human rights of the oppressed in the struggle for collective liberation.
Activism: We recognize that we are the change makers the world needs and that activism is our duty.
Youth: We recognize youth as an integral part of humanity. We celebrate, center and cherish youth.
Singing: We are committed to singing for ourselves, for those who cannot sing, and for those who have been silenced.