Music Education Technology in Perspective

Music Education Technology stems from the rich tradition of technology and music. The technology of music is ongoing, we have music with machines from the 19th Century resulting in one of the most magnificent machines ever conceived: the Symphony Orchestra, operated by a Conductor.

So the relationship of music and technology has always been, first and foremost, a romance of expanding the ways that we make music. As we left the machine age and entered the age of computers, we found new ways of making music, and recording technology developed as part of the machine age to create machines to capture music performance, thus creating for the first time in our history, a musical archive (library) of performers and performances.

Now we are leaving the machine age and evolving into the age of digital technology and communication. This is an extraordinary leap in technology that affects all aspects of how we study, rehearse, perform, record, and distribute music publications and performances. It is not surprising, that this technology may have its greatest impact on how we teach and learn music.

This workshop at Chung Ang University explores the parameters of this new technology and era of interactive web authoring sometimes referred to as technology 2.0 or WWW 2.0. This Blog represents a shift in the parameter, where the focus of the study and discovery comes from an exploration through Blogs and pathways through the Web that may disclose information that we can use to make meaning for ourselves. This will be a workshop about doing, about making meaning from rubrics that explore in very small chunks the technology now at our disposal.