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A grant proposal to teach a NIME-like course at The University of Hartford by Spencer Bambrick (The Hartt School [Music]) and Roy Vanegas (College of Arts & Sciences [Computing Sciences]).
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Interdisciplinary Integration #4

Open code-warrior opened 4 years ago

code-warrior commented 4 years ago

We need to address the following questions under Interdisciplinary Integration

@sbambrick1217 Take a look below and please make suggestions.

Music and technology will be the driving forces of our NIME course, with an emphasis on the latter. From the discipline of music, we will teach students rhythm, notation, and basic orchestration; from a technical standpoint, we will show students how to generate sound, capture human interaction, and embrace their environment using computers, microcomputers, and electronics.

A varied musical experience is created when sound from both traditional musical instruments and computers is combined. That experience has the potential to be heightened when a new interface for creating musical expression is included in this combination. Thus, as a final project, students will perform their NIMEs at a venue in The Hartt School to the UHart community and the public.

sbambrick1217 commented 4 years ago

It looks like you accidentally pasted the questions from "Disciplinary Contributions" here instead of the "Interdisciplinary Integration." Here are the Interdisciplinary questions:

How will the course help students to integrate multiple disciplinary perspectives? The course should not merely juxtapose disciplines, nor ask students to integrate what course design and pedagogy have not. Integrative learning:

• can be found when students integrate disciplines in examining a problem (for example, looking at an environmental problem in a way that incorporates ecological and political components) • can happen when a student applies what she/he has learned in class to a new real- world problem. • can occur when a student reflects on knowledge learned in life or other classes, applying it to a class project, discussion, or assignment.

sbambrick1217 commented 4 years ago

Here are my thoughts on these issues:

This course will integrate multiple interdisciplinary perspectives by taking numerous fields from technical, creative, and hybrid standpoints, and focusing them on a single task: the creation of a new and expressive musical interface. This act actually requires students to maintain an active mindset in each discipline. For example, creating an expressive musical gesture from a digital interface will NOT work if the technical and design components are not adequately addressed. Similarly, if ONLY technical issues are considered in the design process, the interface is likely to be neither expressive nor useful.

This class is not just focused on conceptual knowledge and theory - it is centered around the actual creation of a NIME. Each student will be learning through and from real-world application of these disciplines.

Although the course will be imparting technical skills, enough so that every student can succeed, the real goal is for each student to reflect on their own experiences of musical performance (and on art in general) to decide what is missing and how to fill that gap. The field of NIME exists right on the boundary between technology, art, and culture. This course will not only throw into question students' taste and values about electronic music, it will also force them to question what constitutes an expressive performance at all.

sbambrick1217 commented 4 years ago

One quick comment on your initial response for the “disciplinary” question - you wrote quite a bit about orchestration and rhythm/notation etc. I hadn’t included much of that, just discussed “nonstandard notation.” I can easily teach orchestration as well, as its kind of a specialty for me but how much would that relate to a NIME? Are you thinking more along the lines of electronic or hybrid orchestration? Because I think that would be useful.

code-warrior commented 4 years ago

Here’s an edit of what you submitted on 16 December 2019:

This course will integrate perspectives from technical, creative, and hybrid standpoints, focusing them on a single task: the creation of a new and expressive musical interface. This requires students to maintain an active mindset in each discipline. For example, creating an expressive musical gesture from a digital interface will not work if the technical and design components are not adequately addressed. Similarly, if only technical issues are considered in the design process, the interface is likely to be neither expressive nor useful.

This class is not just focused on conceptual knowledge and theory — it is centered around the actual creation of a NIME. Each student will be learning through and from real-world application of these disciplines.

Although the course will impart technical skills, the real goal is for students to reflect on their own experiences of musical performance — and on art in general — to decide what is missing and how to fill that gap. NIME as a field, in addition to being a noun, exists on the boundary between technology, art, and culture. This course will not only throw into question students’ taste and values about electronic music, it will also force them to question what constitutes an expressive performance at all.

Thoughts, @sbambrick1217