Sound Communities 2009
June 4th, 2009 | 
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Powerjam workshops begin Friday 3rd & Saturday the 4th July 1pm at Brisbane Powerhouse. Led by CreActives/Ellaways coach Tyson Clancy-Jones.
Look here for the JamVideos.
Book at this link
Network Jamming to be featured in Dr Pamela Burnard’s Keynote In New Zealand: Modulating Spaces for Creativity and Innovation in Music Education
1. Situating musical creativity and innovation in the community
(Irish initiative looks at music in communities)
2. Situating musical creativity and innovation in a global community
Andrew Brown’s long awaited ‘Making Music with Java.’
Description:
Making Music with Java is an introduction to music making through software development in the Java programming language using the jMusic library. It explains musical and programming concepts in a coordinated way. The book is written for the musician who wishes to learn about Java programming and computer music concepts, and for the programmer who is interested in music and sound design with Java. It assumes little musical or programming experience and introduces topics and issues as they arise. Sections on computer music and programming are interlaced throughout, but kept separate enough so that those with experience in either area can skip ahead as required.
Purchase from Lulu.com
ISBN: 978-1-4092-8133-7
Conversations at the Edge: Network Jamming
The State Library of Queensland is building a new space called The Edge a place for experimentation and creativity, which provides new and digital tools to enable the exploration of critical ideas, green initiatives, new design practices and media-making. Steve Dillon & Andrew Brown led a discussion about the value of Network Jamming as creativity support tool, collaborative technology and mode 3 learning.
The savetoDISC Research Network wishes the inspirational Music Education Researcher
Dr Pamela Burnard
a Very Happy Birthday.
Click to see jam2jam Birthday Card
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Congratulations to savetoDISC PhD Candidate Simon Chan on the reading/performance of the ‘The Might Have Beens’ by The Other production Company.
Simon ’s latest work is a musical adaptation of J.M. Barrie’s play, “Dear Brutus”. The story concerns a group of people who get a second chance in life, courtesy of the delinquent old fairy, Lob - and an enchanted wood that appears magically every Midsummer’s night. Photograph in poster by Jules Zysman. Orchestrations of “Jealousy” and “Have I Told You I Love You Today” by David Lazar. A reading and song performance was presented at the QUT Kelvin Grove Campus music concert hall on the 21st of June 2009.
Network researcher Dr Don Devito at Sidney Lanier School in Florida is about to
take music and Discover Abilities to Carnegie Hall NYC.
DIScovering ABILITIES is a performance workshop and an inclusive exhibition of research and performances between the Sidney Lanier School music ensemble comprised completely of students with autism, cerebral palsy, Down syndrome and other developmental disabilities and the following professors of community music and music education:
Dr. Emma Rodriguez Suarez: Syracuse University professor of music education
Dr. Phil Mullen: ISME board member and community musician in London
Dr. Steve Bingham: Santa Fe College jazz band director
Prof. Andy Krikun: Bergen County Community College music professor
Dr. David Akombo: Weber State University professor of ethnomusicology
Dr. Magali Kleber: Universidade de Londrina, Brazil music education professor
Lansana Camara: Group Laiengee director (music ensemble for children with disabilities in Conakry, Guinea West Africa highlighted with Sidney Lanier in the May issue of the ISME newsletter.)
The majority of these institutions has published research in the field of community music and special education with Dr Devito and the music students at Sidney Lanier. These are members of the forming North American Coalition for Community Music and ISMEs CMA. The Sidney Lanier music website is in the blogroll with further details.
Jam Bot
ACID Doctoral Student and Apple scholarship holder Toby Gifford has been nominated for the Next Big Thing Award: Vote for him and listen to his amazing JamBot here.
Students from Pentucket Regional High School in Massachusetts using photos of their marching band from the St Patricks day Parade and jamming with them.
New jam2jam scene update
Dance / Electronic Music producer and DJ Nick Coleman has produced some great new jam2jam scenes for Hip Hop and Techno jams.
Nick runs a record label called : Sucksmusic
MIXDEX (Lite)
Andrew Sorensen the innovative author of Impromptu has released the first in a series of iPhone/ iPod Touch music applications. Get your free version of MIXDEX from the Apple store today!
MIXDEX lite is a DJ application in your pocket! MIXDEX lite offers 60 custom audio tracks and five decks allowing you to mix up some wicked beats. You control the start and duration of each audio track and their position on one of five mixing decks. Then when you’re ready hit the Matrix editor and control all five decks for some serious DJ fun. Don’t forget to plug MIXDEX into a sound system for some serious fun!
Coming to Brisbane 3rd-12th August 2009
The Australasian CRC for Interactive Design (ACID) is proud to announce the first International Symposium and Development Workshop for Network Jamming from the 3rd-12th of August 2009 at the Kelvin Grove campus of Queensland University of Technology.
The workshop will bring together world leaders in generative arts making software, educational and community development, Music Industry and community partners with music educators from the USA and Sweden.
International Guests include:
- Dr Eva Saether Lund University Malmo Academy of Music, Sweden.
- Dr Alex Ruthmann University of Massachusetts Lowell, USA.
- Dr Matthew D. Thibeault University of Illinois Urbana Champaign USA.
Australian researchers: Steve Dillon (QUT), Andrew Johnson (UTS),Wayne Taylor (QUT), Michael Dezuanni (QUT) Jeremy Yuille (RMIT) Andrew Brown (QUT), Andrew Sorensen (ACID)Thorin Kerr, (ACID-RA), John Ong (QUT),Barbara Adkins (QUT), Bert Bongers (UTS), Adam Postula UQ.
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The workshop will develop experience design resources and new jamscenes to provide access to collaborative performance for people of diverse cultures and abilities. We will work with a range of new controllers to enable access for disabled performers and develop application scenarios for the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) Program.
Postgraduate researchers from Australia, USA and Sweden will work with Industry, community and academic professionals to create a global network for Generative arts resource production and research into meaningful engagement.
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Sound Communities 2008
Steve Dillon Demonstrates jam2jam at ISME conference in Bologna July 2008.
Congratulations to Dr Felicity Baker who was awarded the prestigious University of Queensland’s Excellence in Research award to the value of AUS$70,000. This is a great achievement for music therapy as she was awarded alongside nanotechnology, and various other hard core science research.
Listen to: Susan Hawkins would like to invite you to have a listen to her latest project airing on ABC Radio National in Australia on Sunday 28th September (7am AEST) and repeated on Wednesday 1 October (7pm AEST). For those of you not in Australia, the program will be available online to stream and download at: “Music and Intimacy: A long street in London and beyond”
Susan Hawkins is an Australian composer. She is also a social worker with many years experience working with older people in London. These two worlds coincide in a rare glimpse of personal exploration into empathy and art. This Encounter also features the insights of men and women in Derby, New York and Brisbane who take the arts and compassion seriously. They join Susan in conversations about aesthetics, identity, spirituality and growing old. ABC Radio National
Congratulations to Toby Gifford whose PhD project – “Interactive music software to accompany human musicians” (Faculty of Creative Industries) was runner up in the bluebox Ideas Competition. Winning $7,500. The winning project was an innovative Robotic ultrasound treatment for Cancer.
Hugh Brown’ s PhD Project – “Musowiki.net” (Faculty of Creative Industries) received an Honorable mention.
Congratulations to Roger Gonzales Who has been awarded the Gordon Spearritt Prize for Best Student Presentation for his paper entitled ¡Latin Jazz! a radio documentary: the process and creation.
Group Laiengee
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J_D5S1FJ3os
Dr Don Devito from Tampa Florida has been working with drumming and disabled children and has recently partnered with community musicians in Gambia.
Group Laiengee is an ensemble for children with disabilities in Conakry, Guinea, West Africa. The director is Alsaney Camara who resides in Conakry and Tasana Camara who is a community musician in Gainesville, Florida. The philosophy behind their approach to music is that all human beings have an innate responsiveness to music similar to that of the infant and the sound of its mother. This natural instinct remains intact even when there are challenges of life brought by physical, cognitive, or emotional disability. Musicality is a basic human characteristic in people, cultures and a binding element in the socialization of a community. For more information on projects associated with this ensemble, please Email: projectguinea@gmail.com.
Celebrating Network Member Achievements
Congratulations to friends, researchers and students associated with the savetoDISC research network.
* Simon Chan’s The Other Production Company-Children’s music theatre piece Velveteen Rabbit was performed in New York as well as a tour of Brisbane Libraries.
* Roger Gonzales Master of Arts documentary on Latin Jazz as a creative work will be broadcast, and on the 10th of August, 2008, Australia wide on ABC Classic FM.
Musowiki Hughie Brown launched Musowiki and had a book Chapter accepted in the Musicological Society (Cambridge Scholars Press) Book.
* Steve Dillon had a book Chapter accepted in the Musicological Society (Cambridge Scholars Publishing) Book.
* Kathy Hirche was awarded an ACID Doctoral Scholarship for her work with Network Jamming experience design.
* Sweet Freedom was awarded a special Judges Award for Excellence Music in Communities from Music Play for Life and released a brilliant DVD and CD called My life My voice a collaboration with Down Syndrome Queensland, Brisbane City Council, Queensland University of Technology.
* Songs of resilience site established in Sweden by Dr Eva Saether Malmo Academy of Music
* The ACID Network Jamming team launched jam2jam establishing six global testing and research sites. developing the social network and client software.
* The ACID Network Jamming team ran Powerjam workshops at Brisbane Powerhouse over the school holidays. This work develops the Community model of the software.
* Luton eLearning centre will be using jam2jam with 2 electronic white boards to create live performances over the UK summer holidays.
* Presentations of the latest versions of jam2jam are took place in Rome and Bologna Italy at the ISME Community Music Activity Commission Seminar and the ISME Conference.
* Presentations and research sites have been established in Malmo Sweden and the home of Dance music- Manchester in the UK.
* Further presentations will be given at ISME in Bologna.