Thoughts about and resources for composition (includes songwriting and production) in music education
I created a whole bunch of resources and a unit of work for high school classes when YouTube sensation Andrew […]
As you can see on the dedicated page for my latest collaboration with Luka Lesson, Αγάπη (Agapi) and other kinds
My wonderful colleague Brad Fuller and I published a paper on the pedagogies we’ve developed in a course I originally
There’s a funny story about this one. Sibelius 5 had lots of cool things to show off. A new audio
Because this book is no longer in print, I have made the resources and tutorial videos (which are still quite
Premiered at the National Museum of Australia in April 2022, and now touring internationally in 2024! Here is one of
Luka and I had been working on Odysseus since 2016, but it became clear that our massive orchestral-choral-Hip-Hop-cinematic theatrical work
I wrote two chapters for a wonderful new music education textbook, The Music Technology Cookbook, edited by Adam Patrick Bell. The
JamesHumbers · Empathy in a time of division My submission for the 2020 “Art Has To Be Contagious” installation in
In the third Zettel of the week, I take you through a number of songwriting, composition, and other zany creative
My chapter in the new book Creative Research in Music, edited by my colleagues Anna Reid, Jeanell Carrigan, and Neal Peres
We’ve just had three wonderful days with our Maker-in-Residence, Linsey Pollak! In this episode, I reflect on the learning that
This episode features a “flipped learning” video that I made for Key Approaches in Music Education at the Sydney Conservatorium
This week we are giving away dozens of free resources for music education and technology! I’ll be reflecting on the
This week’s episode is drawn from my first two lectures this semester in Composition in Music Education. We look at
In this unit of work you will examine how Mike Oldfield built the opening of his seminal progressive rock work Tubular
Every year at the Sydney Conservatorium I get to take one of my favourite courses, Composition in Music Education. The first
Australia’s participation in the war in Afghanistan is the nation’s longest ever military involvement. What happens when an Australian soldier,
I’m teaching at the Sydney University Wingara Mura Bunga Barabugu summer camp for young indigenous Australian songwriters this week …
You’ve probably noticed that my blogging rate has somewhat spiked in the past couple of days. As 2016 creaked to
I’m in the middle of composing a large work for orchestra and choir at the moment, and as I was setting
I posted an obscure photo last week showing set-up for a lecture I gave the following morning. I’m interested to know
I developed several units of work to go with my composition Passion for Symphonic Winds, and this electronic version has nothing to
Last week my Sydney Conservatorium of Music Technology in Music Education (#SCMtech) students handed in their main project, worth 50% of the
Long time no blog – but that’s what happens when you take a new job! Since March I’ve been working
Beginning this week, I’m off on the road with Ensemble Offspring for premiere performances of my Cycles and Circles in addition to
I’ve just completed my fourth commission of the year, and I’m especially proud of this one. I’m going to blog
In our lecture, we have sung through the Drone & Chant: Next, download this GarageBand file to improvise your own
I feel compelled to write about a unit of work just completed with a very talented stage 5 class despite
In the tutorial this week we created our own Wiki on the topic of music technology for education. After discussing
Last week in my second MTeach lecture I talked about a progression of software to match the progression of compositional
This series of videos, then, shows the student how to use the plug-ins. But it does a little more than that. It provides context by looking first at how Beethoven, the master of development, transforms ideas in the first subject of the first movement of his third symphony…