new work from my students
I have often said that the Berklee College of Music should strive to be the world’s leading institute for the intellectual exploration of contemporary music, employing sound as a tool Continue Reading →
Category: teaching
thoughts and musings about teaching
play, work, and learning
i think that working with theory should be like a kind of cosplay…a way that we animate another character in order to feel into and see the world differently. so Continue Reading →
what to do about office hours?
sometimes rather than meeting in the office, it might be better to have coffee, look at art, or take a walk around the block… at berklee, a set number of Continue Reading →
remembering armsted
the past three months have been a time of mourning for me. during the first part of this year, a college roommate, an academic elder brother of sorts, and a Continue Reading →
preservation and transmission: a participatory approach
Overall, my question was “what if the musical practices that we encounter and that we want to transmit cannot fit neatly into presentational forms or recordings?” Then we need to have a much different set of methods than those borrowed from typical musical education (aimed at presentation), stage performance, and recording (yes, even ethnomusicological field recording). Figuring out what those methods might be was the topic of the conversation I wanted to have with my colleagues at NTTU Continue Reading →
