10. March 2017
Keynote | Creation that moves: what it means when humans, not studios, are at the center of music making
What does it mean to be able to produce music anywhere? And what will that look like in the future? When we talk about music production, we’re constantly stumbling over place. First, we made a distinction about studios. Then, it was home studios or home recording. Through all this, the […]
11. March 2017
How Planned Fail Changed My Creative Live
With mobile devices and apps we are provided with thousands of creative tools. On one hand these things provide a nearly unlimited number of possibilities. On the other hand it is hard to select the right tool. We lose our focus easily. As a creator this can be a massive […]
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Learning and designing with digital media in music lessons
Abstract: Outside of schools, interactions with music and digital media are closely linked. In schools, it is difficult to keep pace with this development. Does music teaching work with digital devices other than without?
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TPACK – Professionalisierung für musikpädagogisches Handeln mit digitalen Technologien
»Welche App sollte ich denn am besten für ein Appmusik-Projekt nehmen?« Derartige Fragen werden immer wieder gestellt, wenn es um die Vorbereitung von musikpädagogischen Angeboten geht. Die Antwort darauf ist zumeist unbefriedigend, da sie zumeist nur zeigt, dass eine Unmenge an Apps vorhanden sind, die potentiell genützt werden könnten. Dies […]
Language teaching through music apps
Successful learning needs a sense of achievement, simple and fun exercises that motivate to learn languages. All of that is easily achieved through music apps and the use of tablets. Our children in refugee homes are always highly motivated by new surprises and the (small) achievements they are able to […]
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Mobile Music Competencies for Teachers?!
Abstract: Possibilities of communicating and distributing competencies in making music with mobile de- vices in music teacher education – analyses and perspectives The talk with practical examples focusses on the question of communicating and distributing com- petencies in dealing with mobile devices in music teacher education. At first an overview […]
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Working Apps and Hardware (iOS/Android)
The connection of several tablets with audio and/or midi, as well as a microphone or instruments, can be tricky. What has been established in the computer world for a while now, can still be a challenge when it comes to the tablet: electric power supply, audio latency or different plugs […]
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Thoughts on the Being and Meaning of Digitalization
Everyone is talking about digitalization, grateful expected on one, terribly feared on the other side. But what is the core meaning behind the word digitalisation, what is the cultural technique we created, which is perceived as deliverance and doom at the same time? Thinking about digitalization, words like Social Media, […]
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The DaDa-Machine: experimental sound tools for the real life
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(Deutsch) Diskussionsforum – Nutzen der neuen Chancen im Kontext begleitender Herausforderungen
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APPgemixt! – Music with apps in cultural education
Scenes from the practice: Six students produce their own water music with tablets in a summer campus. At a girls’ workshop, seven schoolgirls write and record their own songs.
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Musikapps: Das Musikinstrument in der Krise
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Polyjamer
Polyjam aims to disrupt the global music industry by blurring the lines between artist and consumer, putting to bed the 20th century way of passively experiencing music, and bringing real musical participation back to a mass audience. We will change the perception of what it means to consume or create music […]
(Deutsch) digital MUSICIANship – Digitales Klassenmusizieren – ein innovatives Konzept für den Musikunterricht
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Music As A Visual Installation: The Concept Of Vidibox
In my session, I want to share the concept of my app vidibox. vidibox is an application developed for iOS devices that allows audiovisual remixing and sharing of interactive video projects. The engine powering vidibox can be used in a range of interactive video applications, from consumer-facing apps to tools for […]
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Audiobus 3 – design challenges we ran into and how we overcame them
Audiobus is a live audio routing platform for iOS. When designing the third iteration of it, we’ve had to deal with many issues stemming from the conflict between flexibility and ease of use. Check out this talk if you want to hear more about the design challenges we ran into […]
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(Deutsch) Musikapps in der Kita – Musizieren mit Apps im Kooperationsprojekt mit der Kammerakademie Potsdam
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The 30 Year Gap: The Untapped Potential of Modern Sound Engines
… and How Mobile is the Key for Forward Thinking Controllers While sound technology has been steadily evolving since the 80s, the average studio still contains the same interface tools that they did 30 years ago. The average synth contains dozens of dimensions of tweak-ability yet only a single Mod […]
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Music apps and creativity – a controversy
Abstract: Music apps are often mentioned in connection with creativity. In my presentation I try to look into their close relationship by examining the different use of music apps: Are music apps able to compose? Can they be as creative as human beings? This lecture takes into account these and […]
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Controlling your MIDI Hardware with Audiobus 3
Audiobus 3 realizes complex MIDI routings in an easy and intuitive way. Musicians can route MIDI from app to app, but also from Hardware to Hardware. The combination of MIDI hardware and Music apps has never been simpler. In this talk I’m going to show how musicians can map multiple […]
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Musicality, Accessibility and Technology – An introduction to the world of Skoog
For many people principle barriers to making music are the instruments themselves. In 2006 in partnership with NESTA a team from Edinburgh University set about creating a new kind of musical instrument. One that was designed for children, to support natural musicality in play and more specifically one that would […]
How to animate the offer of music libraries with musical apps
What does digital change look like in libraries? For music libraries, the digitization of notes and phonograms of own collections for copyright reasons is only possible with regard to very old manuscripts or historical phonograms. At the same time, libraries understand themselves as mediators in dealing with digital media. In […]
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Klangsafari – Discovering Sounds at the Elbphilharmonie
KREATIV KLANGSAFARI – a musical journey through the Elbphilharmonie On a sound safari through the Elbphilharmonie: we find exciting sounds not only in music on and behind the stage, but also in the walls of the brand-new concert hall. In this workshop, school pupils start off on an expedition with the […]
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(Deutsch) Kreativitätsmethoden zur Entwicklung neuer Musikstücke unter Nutzung mobiler Endgeräte
There seem to be similarities between the development of new music and inventing new products. This can be explained by the high importance of creativity in both processes in particular in early phases. Consequently, creative techniques are used at the development of new products to increase creativity. For instance, very […]
The app2music Programme: mobile music making courses at schools throughout Berlin
The berlin association app2music established as a strong partner in berlins cultural activities, supported by the Universität der Künste Berlin and the Forschungsstelle Appmusik. As a worldwide unique pioneer project, it offers new concepts in education. Backed up with digital tools app2music offers music classes and workshops with tablets claiming […]
The Real Time Systemic Music approach of music for fun and profit
The “Real-Time Systemic Music” is the framework that fuel all Herrmutt Lobby’s creations for the past decade. From concert to education, from helping people with disabilities to turning a skateboard ramp into a musical instrument. RTSM changes the way music is thanked, written and played. RTSM is build for live […]
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The App CLOSE CALL
The smartphone has a huge impact on our lives, but most people never stop and think about how they’re influenced by their phones. This might change after experiencing Close Call: a music theater show where the audience plays along with a bigband, using a specially designed musical app on their […]
Diskussion panel – Implementing mobile music
Meanwhile there are numerous mobile music projects within school and cultural education contexts around Germany. This can be seen as a pleasing situation. However, in some cases a longer-term integration of music-technological learning arrangements fails . What are difficulties within processes of implementing music learning with mobile technologies in educational contexts? What can we learn […]
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Audio-Mix and Midi-Routing (AUM, Midiflow)
AUM and Midiflow have become basic apps for every of my iOS music performances. In my session presentation, I will show you some possible fields of application of my everyday use. The mixing-app AUM can integrate all apps that support IAA or AU. They can be played with the integrated keyboard […]
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Using iPhone and iPad in a Eurorack Modular Environment
In this workshop, I would like to show you how to use a eurorack modular system effective with my app zMors Modular in music projects. Topics: Interfaces: Midi, audio Handling triggers, gates, control voltages and audio Sync via MidiClock or Ableton Link Polyphony vs. paraphony Create drum patches
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Composing with the App Klimper
When writing music, the outcome is often restrained by the musical knowledge the composer has internalized well enough to be accessible in his individual workflow. The app Klimper addresses to overcome those restraints by integrating music theory into a sequencer, providing tools for harmonization as well as visual hints to […]
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(Deutsch) Zur Dinglichkeit virtueller Instrumente auf Smart Devices und ihrer Fruchtbarkeit in pädagogischen Settings
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Making Music without barriers – Heart n Soul
Heart n Soul is a UK based charity specialising in developing artists with learning disabilities. Heart n Soul takes a completely artist-centered approach to removing barriers that artists can often face in developing their own creative practice. We do this by enabling our artists to experience the joy of achieving […]
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Apptronica – Label For Music Produced With Apps Only
The netlabel Apptronica was founded by Clif Johnston in 2013. Martin Neuhold was a member of the team from the beginning. The goal of the label is being a platform for music produced on iOS devices. At the moment, Apptronica is changing from a netlabel to an artists community, interaction […]
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Digital Urban Symphony
Following the example of the project „My City, My Sounds“ (ZKM) students of the Hohenstaufen-Gymnasiums Kaiserslautern worked together with the DFKI (Deutsches Forschungszentrum für Künstliche Intelligenz) within a Soundscape-Projekt concerning their hometown. They followed five work steps: 1. Collecting sounds with mobile devices 2. Process sounds with „Audacity“ 3. Create […]
PlayGround – an organic, infinite remix on iPhone & iPad
PlayGround is a new distribution platform for mobile interactive music. Each track in PlayGround is an instrument made of a set of sounds, a special interface and a set an algorithm made with the “Real-Time Systemic Music” framework. In this session, Pascal (Lead of Innovation) will explain to you PlayGround […]
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Discussion pannel – Do Schools need particular Music Apps?
In our discussion we are seeking for music educationalists and app-developers, who are eager to share their experiences on the following questions: * What should the design of an app look like and in which way should apps perform in order to be applied in the music classroom? * Is […]
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Mobile Music in Music School
Mobile digital technologies as a musical instrument could provide a new low-threshold access to their own music for young people. In the coming years, the music schools in Schleswig-Holstein want to focus on their work with the “Digital Music School”. At the 21 publicly-promoted music schools organized in the Landesverband […]
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Discussion panel – Way ahead for the Future
What did we learn from working with the topic of mobile music with apps and the different perspectives on it? What are the perspectives for the future? What questions remain open or what new questions did arise? In the final discussion panel provides a last opportunity to relate different points of view to […]
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The future of mobile music, what comes after the app?
In the last ten years we’ve seen enormous brands disappear (such as Nokia and Palm) and whole new categories of device emerge and take centre stage in the world of mobile music making. It’s safe to say that the one constant is change. So the question must be, where will […]
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iBand-Saar – an inclusive app music project in Saarland
This session is held in german only. This session is about the iBand-Saar. The participants are given an insight into the application practice with the most severely handicapped pupils. It shows how barriers in the band are overcome with selected music apps, a color score concept and specially developed “Lemur […]
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