The latest episode of my podcast is up and its all about iOS 11. The episode features two very special guests (who have each been on the show before). Chris Russell and Paul Shimmons, (co-hosts of the Music Education Technology Podcast) join me to discuss all of the new features and how we are using them.
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The epic conclusion of season two of Robby Burns + Friends has come! Thank to all who listened to and participated in this season all about my book, Digital Organization Tips for Music Teachers. The book was released one year ago this month. I have had an absolute blast interviewing music educators all year long on topics relating to organization and technology in the music classroom. Be sure to check out all of the other episodes in this series.
This week Craig McClellan, of The Class Nerd, joins the show to talk abut automation and advanced workflows. We will save you 1,000s of clicks! You can listen to the episode here.
Associate Professor of Choral Music Education at the University of Maryland College Park, Dr. Ken Elpus, joins my podcast this week to discuss the apps he uses to tackle the many different dimensions of his busy job.
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A new episode of my podcast was just released. Kevin Eikenberg joins the show this week to talk about working with video projects. Kevin’s work with Four/Ten Media is really great. They even produced the video trailer for my book, which you can watch here.
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Will Kuhn and I discuss our strategies for managing audio across all of our devices. We also speculate the future of pro audio and video editing apps for mobile. This was a really fun one to record and the articles in the show notes are especially interesting this week. Enjoy!
Chris Russell is back on my podcast this week to talk all about working with music scores on the iPad. Listen here!
In this weeks episode, I am joined by Paul Shimmons (band director, music tech in education blogger, and podcaster). We have a great time talking about our various workflows for reading, editing, annotating, and organizing our PDFs. This episode was recorded shortly after the announcement of iOS 11 which will bring a lot of new productivity features to the iPad. Naturally, we had to discuss these announcements and how they might reshape our PDF workflows next fall.
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Jon Pareles writing for the New York Times...
On ‘OK Computer,’ Radiohead Saw the Future: Ours:
It all came true. Twenty years after Radiohead released “OK Computer,” capitalism’s tech overlords have inexorably cultivated a work force and customer base of wish-they-were-androids. Using algorithms that ruthlessly tabulate every available metric, they are determined to maximize efficiency, and they see no profit in human downtime, imperfection or ideals. On “OK Computer,” Radiohead saw it coming, amid all the other alienation and malaise that its songs would enfold in melody and noise.
This is a great write up celebrating the 20 year anniversary of one of my favorite albums from one of my favorite bands. Radiohead saw where music technology was heading and paved the way for future musicians to blur the line between human and robot.
After 20 years, it’s clear that “OK Computer” was the album on which Radiohead most strongly embraced and, simultaneously, confronted the legacy of the Beatles. Radiohead picked up chord progressions (like the pivotal bit of “Sexy Sadie” in “Karma Police”), instrument sounds and ideas on structure from the band, even as it completely inverted its 1960s optimism.
I have often compared Radiohead’s use of technology in the recording studio to the Beatles’ studio practices in their later albums. It’s nice to see Pareles dig into this comparison a little further.
You can celebrate this amazing album by checking out their reissue, "OK Computer: OKNOTOK 1997 2017,” which is a remaster of the original CD, includes eight B-sides for EPs they released in the 90’s, and recordings of never before released songs from the “OK Computer" era.
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This week, middle school choral educator, music technology specialist, blogger, and podcaster, Chris Russell, joins the show to talk about using scanning apps in the music classroom.
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