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Showcasing Ensemble Student Creativity using Digital Audio Workstations

DAVID HAAS, Ph.D. Student, Music Education

November 18, 2022

Iowa Music Educators’ Association Fall Conference

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What is a DAW?

  • Digital Audio Workstation
  • Hardware Based
    • Logic Pro, Garage Band
    • Protools, Ableton Live, FL Studios, Reaper
  • Web Based
    • Soundtrap
    • Bandlab

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Musical Legitimacy

  • Production Skills in Music Education
  • Working in Tandem with Traditional Skills

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DAW in Rehearsal

  • Substitute Piano
  • Supplement Piano
  • Metronome Vote
  • Record and Listen
  • Follow along with MIDI notes
    • Fugues
    • Timeline

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Remixing Literature

  • Existing Literature
  • Steady BPM
  • Reframing work
  • Simply Adding Percussion can work
  • Repetitions in listening
  • Kanye West Gloria
  • Share student work
  • www.iowacitywestchoirs.com
    • “Choirs During COVID”

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Balance Exercise

  • Multitracks of existing piece
  • Different Amplitudes
  • Custom Mixes
  • Share with Class
  • Automation
  • Change in Perception
  • Reinforces Pitches
  • Discussion about Biases

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Song Builder

  • https://musiclab.chromeexperiments.com/Song-Maker/
  • Pictures
  • Melodies
  • Solfege Reinforcement
  • Share Projects
  • Collaboration
    • www.iowacitywestchoirs.com
    • Choirs During COVID
  • Export to DAW

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Custom Accompaniments

  • Play art song accompaniment
  • MIDI Input
  • Alternative Melodies
  • Block Chords
  • Arpeggiations
  • Sing Melody
  • Sing Harmony
  • Students Choose Timbre
  • Students Choose Layering

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Culturally Responsive

  • Students fuse their own musicianship with existing literature
  • Students have more creative agency
  • Students Approach Music Different
  • Interfacing with Technology

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Skyrim (The Elder Scrolls)

  • Video Game
  • Bass Choir 2022
    • Smaller in size
    • All “Basses”
  • Transformed Accompaniment
  • Addition of Spoken Parts
  • DAW in Performance
  • Performance Buy-In

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You Can Do This!

  • Online Tutorials
  • Inexpensive Equipment
  • Accessible Interfaces
  • Who has the time?

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Thank you

David Haas, MM

Ph.D. Student

Music Education

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(309) 221-8618

David-Haas@uiowa.edu

uiowa.edu

Showcasing Ensemble Student Creativity Using Digital Audio Workstations