James Humberstone’s blog
My podcast, Music Zettel, is also hosted through this blog. You can listen to it here by filtering the Podcast category, or you can listen on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Google Play Music, or TuneIn.
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SCM Technology in Music Education 2017
It’s that time of year again – my Technology in Music Education course is kicking off here at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music, and my students have created websites to share their reflections on the course plus resources that they make. They’re establishing their professional presence online, and most of them for the first time! You… Read more
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Beat programming to iMovie on iPads
I’m teaching at the Sydney University Wingara Mura Bunga Barabugu summer camp for young indigenous Australian songwriters this week … today doing a workshop on drum programming on iPad apps, then sending to iMovie to use as TV show opening credits music … I made this cheat sheet that I thought I’d share for anyone… Read more
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On Hip-hOpera, the Glitter Gang, Humberrants, and becoming Senior in 2017
You’ve probably noticed that my blogging rate has somewhat spiked in the past couple of days. As 2016 creaked to its end, and I realised that it was less than 11 months since I was in Oxford giving my TEDx talk, I was rather astonished to think about everything that happened this year in my… Read more
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My MOOC, 9 months after release
I really should have re-posted one of the many press releases or interviews I participated in about the MOOC (Massively Open Online Course – free to anyone) that I wrote and produced for the Sydney Conservatorium of Music, The University of Sydney earlier in the year. Here’s one by the university itself, for example. And here’s the rather… Read more
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My #TEDxOxford talk
I’m just in the middle of a blog reflecting on the year that was, and realised that I hadn’t actually blogged about my #TEDxOxford talk, so I decided to put that post on hold, and write about the talk – not just what it was about, but what it was like to give a TEDx talk! First, if… Read more