MusicZettel

In *Music Zettel*, I share ideas and resources for teaching and learning music from my lectures at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music, from my own practice as a composer-producer-educator-academic, and from my free online course "The Place of Music in 21st Century Education". Warning - I'm a classically-trained composer, but I passionately believe our model for music education is exclusive, irrelevant, and broken. I advocate for a pluralist approach to music education for ALL children/humans, and welcome you to the discussion around those ideas.

MusicZettel S3E14 – Everything’s a project

This week I’m thinking about the project that I’ll create for our undergraduates and postgraduates at the Sydney Conservatorium of […]

05-03
28:40

MusicZettel S3E13 – Explicit Teaching in Music Education

Explicit Teaching (not dissimilar to Direct Instruction) is really in vogue with our local government at the moment, and this […]

04-25
51:13

MusicZettel S3E12 – AI and teaching music creation

I know, everyone is writing and podcasting about AI at the moment – YAWN! But the AI generation of music […]

04-18
46:07

MusicZettel S3E11 Public blogging, Critical Thinking, & the Worldviews of Music Teachers

Today’s show is sponsored by Abble and their new product the iSlave Mini, as well as by FcDonald’s. Please check […]

04-11
46:15

MusicZettel S3E10 – Teaching music creation in Australia

Having had a grumble about the lack of an evidence-base in the local government’s supposedly “Evidence-based syllabus” in the last […]

04-04
43:34

MusicZettel S3E9: The new NSW Syllabus pt. 2 – When ideology gets in the way of educative evidence-based practice

Following on from the last episode of MusicZettel, in which I focused on the positive things about the new NSW […]

03-22
43:18

Music Zettel S3E8: The new NSW Syllabus pt. 1 – What is classroom music education for?

I’m asking the big questions today, prompted by the new year 7 to 10 (12 to 16 years) music syllabus […]

03-14
42:09

Music Zettel S3E7: Teaching music through sampling

In today’s episode I talk about ways I’ve used samping in my own composition and production, and ways that I’ve […]

03-07
38:21

Music Zettel S3E6 – The Maker Movement (pt 2) with Mr Phil

This episode of Music Zettel extends ideas about The Maker Movement for Music Education with a recording of my (lockdown) […]

02-29
01:09:40

Music Zettel S3E5 The maker movement with Caitlin & Rowena

In this episode of Music Zettel I revisit the topic of the Maker Movement in music education – something that […]

02-22
41:09

Music Zettel S3E4: Structuring poetry, structuring music

In this episode, I show how setting a poem to music can be guided by the structure of the words, […]

02-14
19:35

Music Zettel S3E3: The sound worlds of Agapi

In this episode, I introduce the sound worlds that I created to reflect the narrative in my latest music theatre […]

02-12
31:02

Music Zettel S3E2: Rapping about history

In this episode, I explain how to teach composition and production with free resources that I’ve made to go with […]

02-10
24:21

Music Zettel S3E1: The story of Agapi

In this episode, I explain the story behind my latest music theatre show, Αγάπη (Agapi) and other kinds of love, […]

02-08
11:22

Music Zettel S2E5 – Thongaphone!

Well, five episodes in five days, and today’s episode coincides with our public presentation of learning, which you can still […]

06-18
27:24

Music Zettel S2E4 – Oh no, virtual choirs.

In this episode of Music Zettel, I look at the theme of Virtual ensembles, multi-screen mixes, and animation in recent […]

06-18
12:00

Music Zettel S2E3 – Songwriting, composing, & creativity

In the third Zettel of the week, I take you through a number of songwriting, composition, and other zany creative […]

06-17
14:54

Music Zettel S2E2 – Free Resources FTW

In the second episode of this micro-season of Music Zettel, I’m looking at projects undertaken in the stream of digital […]

06-16
20:42

MusicZettel S2E1 – The Elephant in the Room

Here I am, back with a second micro-season of MusicZettel, after abandoning the first one just when it was getting […]

06-15
28:56

Music Zettel Ep. 8 – A load of Pollak

We’ve just had three wonderful days with our Maker-in-Residence, Linsey Pollak! In this episode, I reflect on the learning that […]

10-25
40:00

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