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Interesting item for those interested in music and technology…

On 04/30/2010, in Artificial Intelligence/Agents/LLMs/and Related, music, by Daniel Christian

Consider this quote from Virtual Musicians, Real Performances: How Artificial Intelligence Will Change Music:

Ever wonder how Jimi Hendrix would cover Lady Gaga? The day is approaching when you should be able to find out.

Musicians’ opportunities to sell their recordings may be drying up due to cultural shifts brought on by changing technology, but other aspects of technology are creating a promising new market for music: the licensing of the musical style or personality of recording artists.

The concept goes well beyond basing the avatars in guitar-based videogames on famous performers, although the idea is similar. Using complex software, North Carolina’s Zenph Sound Innovations models the musical performances of musicians from Thelonius Monk to Rachmaninoff, based on how they played in occasionally old, scratchy recordings. Using that model, the company creates new recordings as they would be played by deceased musicians, if they were around to record with today’s equipment, to critical acclaim. And that’s just for starters.

From DSC: What sorts of cross-disciplinary assignments come to mind when you view these items?

On 04/22/2010, in art, computer science, digital audio, digital learning, digital storytelling, digital textbooks, digital video, economics, education technology, educational games / serious games, emerging technologies, engagement / engaging students, engineering, interaction design, interactivity, interface design, learning spaces, multi-touch, multimedia, music, new media literacies, physics, programming, project-based learning, psychology, science, smart classrooms, sociology, storytelling, student-related, user experience (UX), virtual field trips, Virtual Reality (VR) / worlds / learning, visualizing information, web-based collaboration, workplace, by Daniel Christian

What sorts of cross-disciplinary assignments come to mind when you view these items?

For these and other reasons, I’m trying to get a multi-touch wall built into our future smart classrooms.

Talk about keeping students engaged! Talk about working together in teams — very real-world!

Sounds Digital

On 04/15/2010, in digital audio, multimedia, music, by Daniel Christian

Who Should Attend?
Digital music entrepreneurs, music executives, investors, advertising, social media and marketing professionals, hackers, games developers, content creators, producers, promoters, managers, business strategists and analysts – all professionals involved in the digital media and music industries…

You have to check out this virtual choir!

On 03/26/2010, in art, global / globalization, music, by Daniel Christian

“This is hauntingly beautiful” — from TipLine – Gates’ Computer Tips

From DSC:
You have got to check out this “virtual choir”! (resource from TipLine – Gates’ Computer Tips)

Not only is this a beautiful piece of music, but an excellent example of a cross-disciplinary project! Includes: art, music, videography, design, and more. Again, how awesome would this be to see on a wall-sized monitor!

I’m a former music teacher who still has a deep passion for beautiful music. I’ve often tweeted about listening to Beibl’s “Ave Maria” sung by the Turtle Creek Chorale when it comes on my itunes. And, I’ve posted about Bobby McFarren and about Perpetuum Jazille singing “Africa” that’s just VERY cool. And, I’ve posted about the Youtube Symphony orchestra and PS22 fifth graders, and the youth orchestra on TED and even a vegetable orchestra. I love beautiful music.

So, when I first heard these two pieces I first LOVED the idea of a virtual chorus – singers from 12 countries contributing virtually to a performance. Now THAT is a VERY cool idea. Then I started to watch the video responses to that video and I found myself completely blown away.

Here is the first video performance. It’s Eric Whitacre’s Virtual Choir – ‘Lux Aurumque’

PremiumBeat.com — Royalty-free music — (but not music for free)

On 03/08/2010, in copyright/ownership/NFTs, digital audio, multimedia, music, web design and production, by Daniel Christian

PremiumBeat.com — Royalty-free music — (but not music for free)

“Royalty Free Music is for website background music, Flash animation, podcast, online tutorial, e-learning tool, slide-show, telephone music-on-hold , corporate training video, Powerpoint presentation, multimedia CD-Rom, promotional DVD, software demo, video blog, web-based online video games and any other project which makes use of new media or multi-media platforms. Also available for TV, radio, theatre or the film industry.”

The Teaching & Learning Digital Studio at Calvin College

On 03/08/2010, in 21st century, Apple, art, Augmented Reality (AR), blended learning, blogs / blogging / vlogging, CMS/LMS, colleges, computer science, creativity, digital audio, digital learning, digital storytelling, digital video, education technology, educational games / serious games, elearning, emerging technologies, engagement / engaging students, engineering, geography / geology, Google, graphics, higher education, history, hybrid learning, innovation, K-12 related, languages and translation, learning, learning ecosystem, liberal arts, mathematics, multimedia, music, online learning, online media, pedagogy, physics, podcasting, psychology, RSS, science, social learning / networks, sociology, STEAM-related, story, storytelling, teachers, teaching & learning, technologies for your home, telecommunications, web design and production, writing, by Daniel Christian

Student-provided sites from The Teaching & Learning Digital Studio at Calvin College

Digital Studio Sites is a blog with a large collection links from the Teaching & Learning Digital Studio Staff at Calvin College (Grand Rapids, MI) that covers a wide range of academic topics and more. The staff scours the Web for the best, most interesting, and useful Web sites for the classroom (and maybe beyond) on the Internet and continually updates the list of links. Professors can quickly find sites related to their field of study by keyword, search, or by subscribing via RSS feed.

Another example of the power of the Internet to create exchanges…

On 03/03/2010, in music, by Daniel Christian

Noteput: An interactive music table — from etre.com

On 02/17/2010, in interaction design, music, by Daniel Christian

Noteput: An interactive music table — from etre.com

Also see http://www.jonasheuer.de/index.php/noteput/ — An interactive music table with tangible notes, that helps students to learn the notation of music.

Learning Ecosystems

Sounds Digital

You have to check out this virtual choir!

PremiumBeat.com — Royalty-free music — (but not music for free)

Another example of the power of the Internet to create exchanges…

Noteput: An interactive music table — from etre.com

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