Interactivity #3

I feel that music is one of the subjects that has fully embraced the good (and bad) of technology within education. Technology has taken over so many parts and processes of music over the years that it may even wipe out live performances all together. Yes, technology has given us recordings of live performances, cultural reach, and a world full of information we wouldn't have had such easy access to without it...but BECAUSE of these advances, the job market for live musicians is becoming smaller and smaller. The good in the relationship between technology and music, I believe, lays mainly in a classroom or academic setting.

Technology is a great tool to utilize and teach in the music classroom. We divided our chart into specific categories of technology and then added data based on those categories (composition/arranging, cross-cultural, recording/performing, etc). I feel that as the list goes on, the examples start out broad and then shrink down into detailed programs and applications. In fact, most of my own data is derived from applications for already existing and mentioned technologies. What our chart shows is that there are so many different resources for just a few specific aspects of music. Each is slightly different in their own way, but they all basically do the same thing. I believe we should teach the importance of technology in music along with the importance of keeping live music in the spotlight.