School, Library, or Organization Name:
The Music Origins Project
Co-Presenter Name(s):
David Grandison Jr.
Country from Which You Will Present:
USA
Language in Which You Will Present:
English
Target Audience:
Middle School/High School Teachers
Short Session Description (one line):
Learn how you and your class can participate in the Music Origins Project by researching, writing, creating short documentary videos on music history related topics, and then and geolocating and publishing them on our site.
Full Session Description (one paragraph minimum):
Music Origins Project (http://MusicOrigins.com) is an web-based project documenting the history and future of music and related artforms. We will be introducing the project to teachers and we are seeking additional teachers to participate in the pilot year of the project. The goal of the Music Origins Project is to create a collaborative project-based interdisciplinary curricular resource that will break down barriers by helping student explore their communities and others around the world via oral history. We are challenging students world wide to identify cultural regions that originated various musical art forms. The artifacts created collaboratively by students and teachers around the globe will then be used to populate the map. This site will become a map-based lens for the exploration of musical art forms. We hope that this will foster global understanding and allow student's natural interest in music to guide their explorations of new musical art forms, as well as, existing ones.
Students and music aficionados alike, will be challenged to create short videos and webpages that will essentially become virtual museums documenting locations important to each musical genera explored. Ultimately, the site/blog will be a searchable, index of the cultural origins of musical art forms along with geo-located multimedia documentation and commentary. The Music Origins Project aims to remove the chronological and geographic barriers faced by music aficionados and travelers seeking to learn about various musical genre and their points of origin.
The blog / community (http://MusicOrigins.com) will document student' process and capture video commentary of historic, primary sources who have personally witnessed past and present events of musical significance. It will also challenge students to define and document new and emerging genres of music on it's map. Professional filmmakers, musicians and writers will function as contributors and curators to this map-based showcase, vetting and providing feedback on content provided by other users. This ensures that all information provided by Music Origins is accurate and authentic. Using this online tool, users will be connected to locations of musical significance and linked to related media.
This project will challenge young people to research musical genres to create video documentary shorts and post them along with video mash-ups, musical mixes, images and other “primary source” historic documents to create multimedia “virtual museums” highlighting popular, places and musical venues important to music history on a Google Map (locations can also be recreated using “Sketch-up“). Thus adding a compelling nuance to the existing body of musical knowledge. Professional documentary projects on key styles of music (like the film TechnoMECCA:The Detroit Sound Project) will participate in the Music Origins Project and geo-locate their important points of interest on the site as well and act a mentors to young (transmedia) film makers. Tips on how to quickly and effectively crowdsource funds for video equipment will also be discussed with interested teachers if time permits.
This project was created as David Grandison's Masters Thesis (Instructional Technology and Media) for Columbia University Teacher's College. He is currently Director/Executive Producer for the film TechnoMECCA:The Detroit Sound Project (http://TechnoMEcca.com) and he will use the completion of this film to model the process for students who participate. Some projects may be published in the "Extras" for the DVD of the film.
A goal of this project is to teach students to make the best short film possible using the simplest equipment available, so use of smart phones, Filp cameras and other inexpensive video equipment will be encouraged.
Cameras, and other equipment needed may be donated to school/teachers who are interested and demonstrate need, on a case-by-case basis.
Come learn how your students can participate in this fun global collaborative project!
Websites / URLs Associated with Your Session:
Twitter @MusicOrigins / @Grandison
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