
Composing From a Model: Part 1
In a couple of my previous posts, I examined Radiohead's "There There" and then built some compositional scaffolding using Radiohead's...
TME Week 11A Notes
Teaching with Technology A bit of background Humberstone doesn’t take a position on technology and its use in the classroom in his MOOC,...

Website Building
In a previous post, I explained my plan to build resources for students studying the blues. I decided this in part because this topic is...

There There - Moving from Analysis to Scaffolding with a Compositional Model
In my last post, I examined some of the compositional features that make Radiohead's 'There There' such a good song. Chief among the...

There There - The Analysis Will Be Over Shortly I Promise!
Radiohead's 'There There' is one of my favourite songs of all time. I thought I'd take a bit of time to try to unpack what makes this...

CME Assignment One: Composition Reflection
I've just finished composing a short work for a stage 5 elective music class, and thought I would offer some reflections on my...

Getting Started
So at the start of this semester, I had the hair-brained idea to learn to code HTML5 and build a website. I actually started quite well,...


Critical Thinking, Technology and BaB
In the final lecture before we went on prac (3B), the class took a more philosophical tone, but as per usual, exposed us to a range of...
TME Week 3B Notes
Class notes pre-lecture Provocation: given that music has its own form of notation (in fact several), as well as audio and video...
TME Week 3A Notes
Recap on DAWs You should expect to have tracks, that can either be midi or audio They should be linear editors They will often have loops...