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jam2jam xo breaks the 10,000 download barrier in 2 months. http://tinyurl.com/3a4j9cf Congratulations to Thorin Kerr for putting smiles on the faces of children all over the world.

Reviews: Jam2Jam does many of things that make the XO such a powerful learning device - rather than being built around students doing their own thing, its centred on group sharing. I’ve found that quite apart from the music side of things, its great just for teaching students co-operation and listening skills. The included sounds/samples are a bit limited and electronic, but good enough to allow the virtual ‘bands’ to get going.Rated 4 out of 5 stars by jnxyz on May 24, 2010

UTS Sydney Assoc Prof Bert Bongers

Eva Saether & Per Skold Malmo Sweden

Matt Thibeault from University of Illinois Urbana Champaign USA and Doctoral student Melanie Matchett

Tim Kitchen Strathcona Melbourne Australia

Alex Ruthmann & Tony Beatrice University of Massachusetts Lowell USA

For London Based members check out:  Andrew Brown Live Coding performance at:

Livecoding @ Anatomy Museum

14-1-10, Kings College, London

Happy New Year 2010

Welcome to the first post of Sound Communities for 2010. We look forward to an exciting new year of music and sound activities in communities from our network members from all around the world.

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.

Network Jamming Press release

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.

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