Today we become Avicii and discover the world of sound production and mashups. We were presented with a file of excerpts of different pop songs and were told to use Soundtrap to create a mash-up with the songs. I chose an part of "Royals" by Lorde and "All the time" by Zara Larsson. Honestly it didn't turn as bad as I thought it would be. But there are limitations on Soundtrap...for once. It isn't as precise when wanted to snip a certain section. Thus Ableton is born!
Ableton to me is scary. Like horror movie conjuring style scary. There is way too many buttons and colours which gets a little overwhelming. But it was actually kinda dope listening and watching James Humberstone doing his demonstration on Abelton LIVE! Like Sibelius, it does take time to understand but once you do it is worth it. When implementing Ableton into a school setting, preferably senior years of high school, step-by-step guides is definitely reccomanded. But once done, students are able to express their creative minds easily and take music and re-create it into their own style. I've always been intrigued in the idea of remixing speeches with music and it is possible to do it on SOUNDTRAP! Here is a link of a tutorial of this can be done.
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Today we started off with the little bits kit, which was a fun introductory into synths. I don't have much experience with synths and how any of those stuff work but having the little bits kit did make it more easier. I can see it being used in junior high school and even late primary when introducing the concept of synthesizers. We followed a step-by-step model of how the little bits kit should be put together and we had to work out what each module did to the sound. The second half of the lesson we talked about "real" synths. I learnt words like oscillators and was taught what they were. To get a better understand of a synth, we turned to our trusty friend Soundtrap, where we pulled up the synth setting so we called tweak and adjust the sound we want. We also learned about the different soundwaves like sin, and square and so on. After todays lesson it made me realised how much I need to learn about technology in Music Education and widening my skills as a music educator.
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Today we were blessed with a presentation by Rowena Stewart and Renee Noble on coding. We had a look at microbits and were able to code our own games using the mircrobit and kookaberry. I have had experience with block coding, since that was mandatory to learn at my school. The important message I took away was the importance of women in STEM and in particular coding. There isn't a lot of female representation in the STEM department. So here my major project idea has been born and begins more journey into coding. Out of all the STEM subjects coding wasn't my strong suit. I was better at Chemistry and Biology rather than physics and IT. But it gave me a challenge that would last for the next 7 week till the big day. Follow my journey of my project in my "TME FINAL PROJECT" tab under "Technology in Music Education". Ok enough self promotion... In this lesson we followed a tutorial on the use of the microbit and how we could use it as mini receivers. Since I have had experience in Block coding it wasn't too bad to follow along. After we follwed templates on how to make the kookaberry play notes. I coded the kookaberry to play C, D, E and F which you could then play a song with. Below is a link to what I did which was posted on our very own Dr. James Humberstone's twitter. I would also like to thank both Rowena and Renee on their presentation and talk on coding and how we could use it in Music Education. It gave me new perspectives on what I deem to be relevant in Mued and hope to use the skills I have learnt in my classroom teaching. Template for Kookaberry: https://docs.google.com/document/d/11uCs-tD_cVqq4ezz-uGTqmPOULAp-iwUPC0T0x-I8jg/edit?usp=sharing Here is a link to what you could do with a kookaberry https://twitter.com/JamesHumbers/status/1381469957406433282?s=20 |
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