Mathmatical Music

Not much to say about this. It combines two of my obsessions, music and math. Go figure LOL.

A little something I made earlier

As many of you are aware I've been teaching music production to my boys at work. It's had mixed success (as most things do in my line of work) and the institutional constraints are really exacerbated but I have had some real successes, some excellent engagement and it has sparked my creativity.

Much kudos has to go to my co-tutor on the other half of the course for his superior musical skills and experience and for his endless energy (cheers J) and we have managed a good handful of completed portfolios by the end of the year. First job back next week is to process them.

So, not only have my boys been doing fantastic things, but I have produced some half decent bits and pieces too. I've put some of them onto MySpace
if you want to have a listen. The little voice on the Christmas thing is Little Miss.

Teaching teenagers about urban music

OK, so this was my first week teaching Intro to Music Production. It went really well on the grown up site, very engaged students who were happy to discuss options and alternatives and asked for help and advice. I think we all learned a lot Tuesday afternoon. This morning was a little different. 8 teenagers who didn't want to listen to a word I said, apart from to whine at me when their PC didn't make any noise; the equiptment is broken Miss, it's SH*T!. No dear you just have to set up your sound card preferences.

I got told how I should be teaching by 2 students and 3 left the class after an hour. Still, 1 is doing really well and I burned 3o mins of 9 tracks he'd done during taster sessions.

Ho Hum, We really must all try better next week. I'll let you know how things progress.