Studying Hybrid and Electronic Drum Kit Technologies
Book Chapter
Stillie, B. (2021)
Studying Hybrid and Electronic Drum Kit Technologies. In M. Brennan, J. Michael Pignato, & D. Akira Stadnicki (Eds.), The Cambridge Companion to the Drum Kit (141-155). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press
Drum kit related technologies, such as such as sample pads, triggers or percussion controllers, have now become commonplace in the hybrid drum kit setups used by many drummers...
A Good Pair of Ears: Conceiving of and developing aural skills in popular music education
Book Chapter
Stillie, B., & Moir, Z. (2021)
A Good Pair of Ears: Conceiving of and developing aural skills in popular music education. In K. D. Cleland, & P. Fleet (Eds.), The Routledge Companion to Aural Skills Pedagogy: Before, In and Beyond Higher Education. New York: Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429276392-18
When musicians and music educators consider aural training, many of us have a tendency to imagine students transcribing melodic dictation, identifying chord progressions, inte...
Ground Control and Cloud Booths: Using Dante to break geographical barriers to music production
Book Chapter
Ferguson, P., & Hook, D. (2021)
Ground Control and Cloud Booths: Using Dante to break geographical barriers to music production. In R. Hepworth-Sawyer, R. Toulson, & J. Paterson (Eds.), Innovation in Music: Future Opportunities (89-105). Abingdon: Routledge
In January 2013 the authors became early adopters of Focusrite RedNet. The RedNet Dante-based audio-over-IP interfaces gave their studios and performance areas very flexible c...
Performing with Drum Kit Technologies (Advanced)
Book Chapter
Stillie, B. (2020)
Performing with Drum Kit Technologies (Advanced). In A. P. bell (Ed.), The Music Technology Cookbook. Oxford: Oxford University Press (OUP
This chapter describes an approach that introduces students to the features and musical affordances of drum kit technologies. Students learn how to use percussion controllers ...
Cold commodities: Discourses of decay and purity in a globalised jazz world
Book Chapter
Medboe, H. (2019)
Cold commodities: Discourses of decay and purity in a globalised jazz world. In T. Howell (Ed.), The Nature of Nordic Music (123-138). London: Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315462851
Jazz has been a global music since its inception. In conflating Scandinavian jazz with the production of the ‘Nordic tone’, several accounts of European jazz present the music...
How do I get the grades creativity and conflicts of motivation risk and reward.
Book Chapter
Stefanie, R. (2019)
How do I get the grades creativity and conflicts of motivation risk and reward. In Z. Moir, B. Powell, & G. D. Smith (Eds.), The Bloomsbury Handbook of Popular Music Education: Perspectives and Practices, 395-413. Bloomsbury Publishing
This chapter discusses the thought processes behind learning, teaching, and assessment (LTA) of creativity as a set of skills and processes. I utilize the work I have done in ...
When Is A Drummer Not A Drummer? Developing Coordination , Musicianship And Creativity Through Electronic Drum Performance
Book Chapter
Stillie, B. (2019)
When Is A Drummer Not A Drummer? Developing Coordination , Musicianship And Creativity Through Electronic Drum Performance. In Z. Moir, B. Powell, & G. Dylan Smith (Eds.), The Bloomsbury Handbook of Popular Music Education Perspectives and Practices (189-201). London: Bloomsbury Publishing
Many drummers now embrace technology to enhance and extend their setup, and what they can offer their band. Thus, it is important that drum kit education addresses this phenom...
Beyond Borealism: New Perspectives on the North
Book Chapter
Medboe, H. (2016)
Beyond Borealism: New Perspectives on the North. In Beyond Borealism: New Perspectives on the North (149-166). Norvik Press
Since the 1970s, jazz from Scandinavia has represented a distinct reimagining of the erstwhile American music form with the term “Nordic tone” being liberally applied in the m...
Microsampling: from Akufen's microhouse to Todd Edwards and the sound of UK Garage.
Book Chapter
Harkins, P. (2010)
Microsampling: from Akufen's microhouse to Todd Edwards and the sound of UK Garage. In A. Danielsen (Ed.), Musical Rhythm in the Age of Digital Reproduction (177-194). Ashgate Publishing
Failed Time, Successful Time, Shadowtime: An Interview with Brian Ferneyhough.
Book Chapter
Fitch, L., & Hails, J. (2010)
Failed Time, Successful Time, Shadowtime: An Interview with Brian Ferneyhough. In M. Paddison, & D. DELIÈGE (Eds.), Contemporary Music: Critical and Theoretical Perspectives (319-330). Ashgate Publishing