The Music Technology Cookbook

Edited by adam patrick bell, Associate Professor of Music Education, University of Calgary

adam patrick bell is Associate Professor of Music Education in the School of Creative and Performing Arts at the University of Calgary. He is the author of Dawn of the DAW: The Studio as Musical Instrument (2018) and has written several peer-reviewed articles and chapters on the topics of music technology in music education and disability in music education. Prior to his career in higher education, adam worked as an elementary music teacher by day and music producer by night.

Daniel Abrahams is Assistant Professor of Music Education at the University of Arkansas - Fayetteville.

Leila Adu-Gilmore is a composer-performer who has released five Leila Adu solo albums, as well as composed for So Percussion, Gamelan Padhang Moncar, Brentano String Quartet, and Forward Music Project.

Emily Achieng' Akuno is Professor of Music at the Technical University of Kenya.

Meredith Allen is an educator and an international presenter. She is Sales Enablement Manager and manages the US team of Education Specialists for Soundtrap for Education.

Malachi D. Fortune Apudo-Achola is a Cambridge commonwealth scholar.

Brendan Anthony has an established international career as a popular music record producer and is currently enrolled in a Doctor of Education (Griffith). He is Lecturer in Popular Music Production within the Bachelor of Music at the Queensland Conservatorium, Griffith University, Australia.

Alison Armstrong is a high school music teacher from Australia and has spent most of her life in international schools, both as a student and as a teacher. She is currently teaching at NIST International School in Bangkok, Thailand.

Adrian Barnes is Assistant Professor of Instrumental Music Education and the Coordinator of Music Education at Rowan University in Glassboro, New Jersey.

Liam Baum teaches instrumental and general music at the BELL Academy, a public middle school in Bayside, NY. He is also a Teacher Ambassador for Makey Makey and has led several workshops around the NYC area on creative coding and physical computing at events including Creative Coding Fest (ccfest.rocks), Hip Hop Hackathon (hiphophacks.com) and Monthly Music Hackathon (monthlymusichackathon.org/).

Daniel Beal is the choral director at Unami Middle School in the Central Bucks School District in Doylestown, PA.

Ryan Bledsoe is a music educator who has worked with infants through college students in Florida, Arizona, and Texas. As a doctoral student in music education at Arizona State University, Ryan researches and writes about creativity, music technology, and music making. She is the founder of the Duo Musical Playground which offers play- and maker-based music programs to children and adults in North Texas.

Benjamin Bolden is Associate Professor and UNESCO Chair of Arts and Learning in the Faculty of Education at Queen's University, Canada. Ben is an associate composer of the Canadian Music Centre and his compositions have been performed by a variety of professional and amateur performing ensembles.

Melike Ceylan is a sound artist interested in radiophony, medium specificity, and the experimental uses of recorded voice and language. She is currently a Ph.D. candidate in Sonic Arts at the University of Calgary.

John Churchville is a two-time Grammy Nominated Music Educator, Music Education Consultant, and national presenter for the Bureau of Education Research.

Patrick K. Cooper is recipient of the 2015 Outstanding Emerging Research Award. His research interests capture the intersection of creativity, inclusion, and motivation, with publications in Psychology of Music, International Journal of Music Education, Journal of Popular Music Education, Research Perspectives in Music Education, and in various edited volumes. He has served as an article reviewer for two international music education journals and has been a board member for the Arizona Society for General Music.

Ian Cummings is a drummer and music educator at New Roots Charter School in Ithaca, NY.

Eva J. Egolf is a music educator based in New York City. She currently teaches Elementary Band in New Rochelle, New York.

Martin Emo is an Education and Music Technology Training Specialist from New Zealand.He is currently a Doctoral student at Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand.

Gena R. Greher is Professor of Music & Music Education at the University of Massachusetts Lowell. She's a 2014-15 Donahue Endowed Professor of the Arts and Education Director of the UMass Lowell String Project/Youth Orchestra. Gena is co-author with Jesse Heines of Computational Thinking in Sound: Teaching the Art and Science of Music and Technology from Oxford University Press.

Ethan Hein is a Doctoral Fellow in music education at New York University, and an adjunct professor of music at NYU, the New School, and Montclair State University. Together with Will Kuhn, he is the co-author of Electronic Music School: Empowering Student Creativity, forthcoming from Oxford University Press. He maintains a widely-followed blog at www.ethanhein.com.

James Humberstone is a composer, educator, musicologist, and music technologist. He is Senior Lecturer at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music, the University of Sydney. Check out his most recent creative projects, Odysseus Live http://www.odysseus.live; The Weight of Light http://weightoflight.com.au; and Noise Husbandry http://www.composerhome.com/concert/maritime/.

Misty Jones Simpson is Assistant Professor in the Department of Recording Industry at Middle Tennessee State in Murfreesboro, TN.

Jonathan Kladder is Assistant Professor of Music Education at Ithaca College. He is co-editor of The Learner-Centered Music Classroom: Models and Possibilities.

Angela Lau is passionate about being at the crossroads of technology, education, and multidisciplinary learning. She believes in learning through doing and is committed to designing experiences that encourage play, collaboration, and creativity. She has experience in classroom music teaching, curriculum design, children's musical direction, and has previously conduct research and user tests with music education technologies at the NYU MusEDLab. Currently based in South Korea, Angela is working to create spaces and opportunities for learning and play in Asia.

V.J. Manzo is Associate Professor of Music Technology and Cognition at Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI). He is author of several books published by Oxford University Press including Max/MSP/Jitter for Music, Foundations of Music Technology (2011, 2016), and co-author of Interactive Composition (2015) and Environmental Sound Artists (2016). For more information, visit his website at www.vjmanzo.com.

Mark Marrington is Senior Lecturer in Music Production at York St John University. He is a co-editor of Producing Music (2019).

Richard Marsella is a PhD candidate from the University of Toronto and Executive Director of the Regent Park School of Music. He also writes music under the artist name Friendly Rich, where original recordings, books, videos, and other fun projects can be found at www.friendlyrich.com

Lloyd McArton is a musician, educator, and researcher from Toronto, Canada.

Richard McCready teaches Music Technology and Guitar classes at River Hill High School in Clarksville, MD. He was awarded the TI:ME (Technology In Music Education) Teacher of the Year Award in 2013, and the Outstanding Music Educator Award for Maryland in 2014.

Matt McLean is an adjunct professor at NYU's Steinhardt School and a full-time music faculty member at Choate Rosemary Hall in Wallingford, CT. He is also the founding director of Young Composers & Improvisors Workshop, a nonprofit organization dedicated towards helping teachers bring music composition to their students.

Zack Moir is Lecturer in Popular Music and the Director of the Applied Music Research Centre at Edinburgh Napier University, Scotland. He is also a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy.

Emmett O'Leary is an assistant professor of music education at the Crane School of Music, SUNY-Potsdam.

Jared O'Leary is a multiplicity whose research interests include music engagement and learning through video games and interactive audio; affinity, hybrid, and participatory music engagement and learning; and the intersections between music engagement, learning, and computer science. Visit JaredOLeary.com to stay up to date with his latest research.

Mark E. Perry is Director of the Music Industry Program at Oklahoma State University. He owns and operates the record label Bunnyhous3 Records.

Joseph Michael Pignato is Professor in the Music Department at SUNY Oneonta. He is a principal investigator for and co-author of The Music Learning Profiles Project: Let's Take This Outside published in 2017 and co-editor of the forthcoming Cambridge Companion to the Drum Kit.

Amandine Pras is Assistant Professor of Digital Audio Arts at the University of Lethbridge in Alberta, and an Associate Researcher of Centre Georg Simmel at the School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences (EHESS) in Paris.

Laurie Radford is a Canadian composer, sound artist, music technologist, educator, and researcher. He is curently Professor of Composition and Sonic Art at the University of Calgary.

Clint Randles is Associate Professor of Music Education at the University of South Florida School of Music.

Jesse Rathgeber is Assistant Professor of Music, Associate Director of the Center for Inclusive Music Engagement, and Coordinator of the Music and Human Services Minor at James Madison University in Harrisonburg, Virginia.

Bryden Stillie is Senior Lecturer in Music and Head of Learning and Teaching in the School of Arts and Creative Industries at Edinburgh Napier University, Scotland.

Johannes Treß is a research assistant at the University of Education in Freiburg (Germany). He is also a musician, performer, and composer.

Martin Urbach is a Latinx immigrant, educator, activist, percussionist, and composer. He is currently a doctoral candidate in music education at Teachers College, Columbia University.

Ryan Van Bibber teaches music and audio production to high school juniors and seniors at the Fort Hayes Metropolitan Education Center, an arts-focused high school and career center in Columbus City Schools. He is President of the Technology Institute for Music Education's Ohio Chapter (TI:ME Ohio).

Daniel A. Walzer is Assistant Professor of Composition for New Media at the University of Massachusetts Lowell.

Katie Wardrobe is a music technology trainer, consultant, blogger, and podcaster who is passionate about helping music teachers through her business Midnight Music (www.midnightmusic.com.au). She is author of iPad Projects for the Music Classroom (2014). Katie is also the host of the Music Tech Teacher podcast which was launched in early 2017.

Miles Warrington is Lecturer in Music Technology at the University of Pretoria, South Africa and serves as composition editor for the Journal of the Musical Arts in Africa.

Marc Weidenbaum founded the website Disquiet.com in 1996 at the intersection of sound, art, and technology, and since 2012 has moderated the Disquiet Junto, an active online community of weekly music/sonic projects that explore creative constraints. He is the author of the 33 1/3 book on Aphex Twin's classic album Selected Ambient Works Volume II (2014), and has written for Nature, Boing Boing, The Wire, Pitchfork, Downbeat, NewMusicBox, Art Practical, and The Atlantic online, among other periodicals.

Robert Willey teaches music business, songwriting, senior projects, and computer music at Ball State University and has written books on music production, Creole fiddle, Brazilian piano, and music industry. For more information visit http://rkwilley.com

"Baking is often thought of as a science. Cooking, on the other hand, is usually considered an art. This recipes in this cookbook work well as is, but can also be adapted and modified by artful, creative educational chefs to meet the specific needs of their students. Highly recommended!" - Roger Mantie, Program Director and Associate Professor of Music, University of Toronto Scarborough, and co-editor of The Oxford Handbook of Technology and Music Education

"Featuring a clear set of how-to instructions and ideas that are practical, imaginative, and sequential — The Music Technology Cookbook: Ready-Made Recipes for the Classroom is the book 21st-century music educators have been waiting for. With recipes for the beginning technology user to the experienced, the Cookbook covers it all, earning itself a well-deserved spot on the bookshelves of elementary, secondary, and tertiary music educators. Brilliant and timely!" - Janice Waldron, Associate Professor of Music Education, University of Windsor