Here I am, back with a second micro-season of MusicZettel, after abandoning the first one just when it was getting good (or was it?). Anyway, in this episode I’m going to tell you what the plan is for this short season, and for the future, as well as about a fabulous event coming Friday!

If you’d like to pick up your free registration for An Evening of Inventions and Ideas, go here: https://bit.ly/InventIdeas. And if you’d like to check out ALL of the Elective Stream contents before you sign up, I’ve made a programme! https://bit.ly/SCMMTMEProg

If you have questions or would like to leave a comment, please do that here on http://humberstone.org under these show notes!

We’ve just had three wonderful days with our Maker-in-Residence, Linsey Pollak! In this episode, I reflect on the learning that went on, the Bad, the Ugly, and the Good, and we hear from my students who were involved in the residency at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music.

If you’d like to hear more music from Linsey and the other musicians/projects I mentioned in this week’s episode, please check out:

• Linsey’s website
• Linsey’s YouTube channel
• Jon Madin
• Mal Webb
• Odysseus

In this week’s podcast, I interview Brad Fuller, director of music at Northern Beaches Christian School, about his pedagogical approach to teaching the class that I described in Episode 6, where our undergraduate pre-service Music Teachers wrestle with jamming with chord-playing instruments that are totally new to them and the philosophy of the Creative Music Movement, all at once!

References:
The Place of Music in 21st Century Education, my free 5-week online course https://www.coursera.org/learn/music-education
A video (from the above course) of Brad showing his classroom spaces https://vimeo.com/220881784

This episode features a “flipped learning” video that I made for Key Approaches in Music Education at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music, the first year course that I mentioned in episode 2. For those wondering what “flipped learning” means, it’s when you take a part of a class that you’ve traditionally chalked-and-talked, and “flip” it so that it comes before the class, often in the format of a video to watch in the same way we sometimes set readings before classes.

In past iterations of the course, while students told us they enjoyed the content, they felt it was too chopped up into many topics. So this year, as mentioned in episode 2, the theme for the second half of the course is “learning a new chord-playing instrument”, and it’s the music education history bits that I’ve flipped. Students watch the videos (and do a quick funny quiz to confirm they got the basics) online before the class, and in the class our guest lecturer, Brad Fuller, can provoke some discussion around those ideas as he sees fit.

In the next episode, Brad and I will be discussing how the class actually went… so stay tuned to find out! Music in this episode included excerpts from:

• Music from their worlds composed by James Humberstone, performed by Julijana Sarac (check out the video, it’s beautiful! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6gMikfEGgaM)
• Cycles & Circles composed by James Humberstone, performed by Ensemble Offspring https://ensembleoffspring.bandcamp.com/album/cycles-and-circles
• Shoreditch Experimental School, from somewhere on YouTube…

Please let me know what you thought about this episode on its webpage, https://humberstone.org/2019/09/24/music-zettel-ep-6—the-creative-music-movement/.

This week we are giving away dozens of free resources for music education and technology! I’ll be reflecting on the first 5 weeks of my Sydney Conservatorium course “Technology in Music Education”, which culminated in a media creation session with brilliant pianist Lolita Emmanuel in which the students were the film and sound crew.

I mention lots of resources and websites in this episode, so here they all are for your delectation:

• My free online course (MOOC):https://www.coursera.org/learn/music-education
• My recent blog sharing all of the #SCMTME projects: http://bit.ly/SCMTME2019
• Pianist Lolita Emmanuel: https://sydney.academia.edu/LolitaEmmanuel
• DAYTiME conferences 2020: www.musicednet.com/daytime
• KASM YouTube channel: http://bit.ly/KASMyoutube
• Sugata Mitra’s TED talk Kids can teach themselves:Sugata Mitra: Kids can teach themselves 
• Dimitri Christakis’ TEDx talkMedia and children: TEDxRainier – Dimitri Christakis – Media and Children

Connor Malanos’ beatboxing project

• Blog post – https://wordpress.com/post/connormalanos.wordpress.com/232
• Presentation during the 2018 Presentation of Learning: https://www.facebook.com/sydneycon/videos/492110914635395/?t=1463
• Trailer: http://bit.ly/BBeducation
• Remington + Connor’s Vlog of their experiences presenting at DAYTiME: https://youtu.be/uQYWnygnKZo?t=1018

I’d love it if you’d leave me a comment at the page for this episode, at https://humberstone.org/?p=1228

I’ve been to Alice Springs to work on a new project, Ilyawe, and in this episode I introduce the project in the context of social justice in Music Education. You can find out much more about the project at its website, www.ilyaweproject.com. There is a longer version of this podcast at https://humberstone.org/?p=1219 with more background about the plight of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Australians – this version is child-friendly.

The Hip-Hop song in this episode is not from Ilyawe (the music for this new project is just being written!), but from another youth Hip-Hop project I’ve been working on since 2016, Odysseus : Live, with producer Jordan Thomas Mitchell, and poet/MC Luka Lesson. The children’s work that you can hear midway through the podcast is my Today is Tomorrow Beginning (2016), performed by middle schools students of MLC School in the Sydney Town Hall. 

Please comment on the corresponding webpage for this episode, here.

This week’s episode is drawn from my first two lectures this semester in Composition in Music Education. We look at some of my own Orff-style arrangements and original compositions and discuss how these can be both a pedagogical and compositional model for teaching and learning. The resources I mentioned in this episode include:

• My Train’s Off the Track arrangement (PDF)
• A printable straight train track (PDF)
• A printable curved train track (PDF)
• My original composition 6834 (PDF)
• My arrangement of a teeny bit of Daniel Rojas’ Hard Boiled Overture (PDF)
• My arrangement of the keyboard hook from Prince’s When Doves Cry (PDF)
• My arrangement of Clean Bandit’s Symphony (PDF)

If you enjoyed this episode, I’d love to hear what you think on its page, https://humberstone.org/?p=1191.

What are the musical skills that every classroom music teacher needs? I’ve been lucky enough to rewrite our first year #MusicEd courses this year, and I’ve focused first on the ability to teach a melody through imitation & chunking (musical definition coming up!); and in addition, this semester, on the ability to accompany songs on chord-playing instruments. Tell me what you think a music teacher’s essential skills are in the comments for this podcast, at the bottom of this page.

Links related to/mentioned in this episode:

• My Riptide sheet for all chord-playing instruments.
• Jeff Robin’s brilliant animations on what PBL (Project Based Learning) is.
• My free online course, The Place of Music in 21st Century Education.

The first podcast in my first ever series – Music Zettel – in which I’ll share ideas and resources from my lecture series this semester at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music, in addition to content related to my free MOOC (online short course), The Place of Music in 21st Century Education.

I’d love to receive your comments and suggestions here at humberstone.org. Perhaps we can have a friendly but robust debate about these topics? You can also download a rough transcript here.