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If you haven’t seen this yet – then I would really recommend taking a look. Go to http://ardour.org/ It is the most impressive open source music project I have yet to come across (and audacity takes some beating).

Found myself reading ignatia’s blog today which discusses connectivism (which could be thought of as a particular approach to thinking and acting with technology) and what simmilarities it shares with interpretivism and critical social science. While many interesting questions are raised I came across the following which relates to my thinking here on Music technology in [...]

Came across this cool video today – some really neat concepts. I would like to see what this would look and sound like when used as a musical interface: multiple pitches, variable positioning = dynamics/timbre, maybe split right/left hand to control different parameters (maybe effects and Equalization). There is so much potential here…. Take a look [...]

I Followed a link from Stephen Downes’ OLDaily email yesterday and came across this great list of principles for schools by Liz B. Davis. 1. Learning to use one’s mind well 2. Less is More, depth over coverage 3. Goals apply to all students 4. Personalization 5. Student-as-worker, teacher-as-coach 6. Demonstration of mastery 7. A tone of decency and trust 8. Commitment to the entire school 9. Resources dedicated to teaching and learning 10. Democracy [...]

I came across an introduction to Beaterator today here - a new one for me. Already online here and out for sony PSP on Sept 29th. What caught my attention was the possibility of creating your own loops in a package like this (my guess is aimed at the ‘dabbler’). It seems like more and [...]