Music technology is allowing students to experience a wider range of musical styles and skills in more relevant and engaging ways. If anything has been established over the past 10 weeks in "Technology in Music Education" (Sydney Conservatorium), it is this fact.
Technology is enabling students to be fully immersed in performing, listening AND composing all at once. As discussed in my last post, sequencing programs and "DJ" tech is becoming more accessible and relevant to classroom music education.
Brett Gaylor explores the musical authenticity and identity of a DJ as well as the issue of copyright and content creation in the digital age. He suggests that the media landscape of the 21st century is made up of two sides, people who want to protect their ideas and people who want to share ideas with the public.
He states that in this day the media is;
" A war for ideas. The battleground is the internet"
Check out his documentary "RiP: A Remix Manifesto" for more detail here.
From all of this, we can support the idea that the "DJ" is a remixer & someone who mashes up and mixes material to create new.
Here is a fun example of a remix by Pogo
This viewpoint suggests that we need to change the way that we view composition in the classroom and extend the parameters of it to include electronic music and to support the value that remixing adds to the musical experience.
I am sure that I will write more on this topic as I learn more so watch this space!
MUED4002 lecture: 26/10/18