Featuring 56 lessons by 49 music technology experts from around the world, The Music Technology Cookbook is an all-in-one guide to the world of music technology, covering topics like: composition (with digital audio workstations such as Ableton, Soundtrap, GarageBand); production skills such as recording, editing, and equalization; creating multimedia (ringtones, soundscapes, audio books, sonic brands, jingles); beatmaking; DJing;
programming (Minecraft, Scratch, Sonic Pi, P5.js); and, designing instruments (MaKey MaKey). Each lesson tailored for easy use and provides a short description of the activity, keywords, materials needed, teaching context of the contributing author, time required, detailed instructions, modifications for learners, learning outcomes, assessment considerations, and recommendations for further reading. Music educators will appreciate the book's organization into five sections--Beatmaking and Performance; Composition; Multimedia and Interdisciplinary; Production; Programming--which are further organized by levels beginner, intermediate, and advanced. Written for all educational contexts from community organizations and online platforms to universities and colleges, The Music Technology Cookbook offers a recipe for success at any level.
List of Contributors Editor's Introduction adam patrick bell Part 1: Beatmaking and Performance 1. Rap My Name (Beginner) Katie Wardrobe 2. Beats in a Box (Beginner) Eva Josephine Egolf 3. Drum Programming Minus 1 (Beginner) James Humberstone 4. Complete the Beat (Intermediate) Ian Cummings 5. Drop that Beat! Digital Sampling with Ableton Live (Intermediate) Jonathan Kladder 6. Mixing a DJ Set (Intermediate) Mark E. Perry 7. Maschine Jam: Set the Groove for Classroom Improvisation (Advanced) Clint Randles 8. Music Production Clusters: Engage, Explore, Discover, Create, Collaborate (Advanced) Joe Pignato 9. Performing with Drum Kit Technologies (Advanced) Bryden Stillie Part 2: Composition 10. Creating Song on iPads is a Cinch! (Beginner) Daniel Beal 11. Music, Loops, Coding, OH MY! (Beginner) Meredith Allen 12. The Patented Humberstone 4-Finger Technique (Beginner) James Humberstone 13. Analyzing Your Favorite Song to Create a New Song (Intermediate) John Churchville 14. When the Past Meets the Present (Intermediate) Angela Lau 15. Creating Melodies to Fit A Chord Progression (Intermediate) Matt McLean 16. Musique Concrète Étude (Intermediate) Robert Willey 17. Anthem Creation for a New Nation (Intermediate) Patrick K. Cooper 18. Ableton Overture (Intermediate) Alison Armstrong 19. The Room Tone Song (Intermediate) Marc Weidenbaum 20. Getting into Place/Space (Advanced) Laurie Radford 21. Shared Sample Projects (Advanced) Ethan Hein 22. Seeded Composition (Advanced) Leila Adu-Gilmore 23. Expanding Your DAW: From the DAW to the Outside World! (Advanced) Miles Warrington Part 3: Multimedia and Interdisciplinary 24. Alphabet Soup (Beginner) Richard Marsella 25. Sonic Signatures (Beginner) adam patrick bell & Benjamin Bolden 26. Podcast Your Story with Music (Intermediate) Benjamin Bolden 27. Impressionist Expressionist (Intermediate) Patrick K. Cooper 28. Hybrid Acoustic and Electronic Band Collaboration with Visual Arts (Intermediate) Martin Emo 29. Online Resources for Dance (Intermediate) Malachi Apudo-Achola and Emily Achieng' Akuno 30. Rap-In-Time: An Examination and Presentation of Historical Events Through Rap (Intermediate) Adrian Barnes 31. Analyzing a Song Through Lyric Annotation (Intermediate) Emmett O'Leary 32. Storytelling Remix (Intermediate) Patrick K. Cooper 33. Story Time (Intermediate) Richard McCready 34. Video Jingle (Intermediate) Robert Willey 35. Sound Hunt (Intermediate) V.J. Manzo 36. Found Sounds: Music from the Mundane (Intermediate) Zack Moir 37. 5 Seconds of Fame (Advanced) Martin Emo 38. Making Signs Sound: Field Recording and Performing Graphic Scores (Advanced) Johannes Tress 39. Field Recording and New Media Composition Basics (Advanced) Daniel Walzer Part 4: Production 40. FX Roulette (Beginner) adam patrick bell 41. Equalizer Elements (Intermediate) Melike Ceylan 42. Sifting for Pops and Clicks: Editing Audio at the Sample Level (Intermediate) Ryan Van Bibber 43. Understanding Envelopes in Synthesis (Intermediate) Misty Jones Simpson 44. Sound Stations: Experimenting with Effect Pedals (Intermediate) Lloyd McArton 45. The Tracker Producer and Top-Liner Collaborative Music Production Project (Advanced) Brendan Anthony 46. Exploring the Potential of Looped Material in DAW-based Music Creation (Advanced) Mark Marrington 47. Standard 3-Point Micing (Advanced) Amandine Pras 48. Name That Synth Patch (Advanced) Misty Jones Simpson Part 5: Programming and Design 49. Hip Hot Cross Buns (Beginner) Jared O'Leary 50. Scratch Sampler (Beginner) Ryan Bledsoe 51. MaKey MaKey Drumpad with Scratch (Beginner) Liam Baum 52. MPCs to Change the World (Beginner) Martin Urbach 53. Design to Break Barriers: An Adaptive Instrument Project (Intermediate) Jesse Rathgeber 54. What A Wonderful World: Ear Training, Sequencing, and Chunking Tunes in Scratch (Intermediate) Gena R. Greher 55. Designing Contour in Music with Minecraft (Intermediate) Daniel Abrahams 56. Mouse Theremin with p5.js (Intermediate) Liam Baum
adam patrick bell is Associate Professor of Music Education in the School of Creative and Performing Arts at the University of Calgary. He is the author of Dawn of the DAW: The Studio as Musical Instrument (2018) and has written several peer-reviewed articles and chapters on the topics of music technology in music education and disability in music education. Prior to his career in higher education, adam worked as an elementary music teacher by day and music producer by night.
Reviews for The Music Technology Cookbook: Ready-Made Recipes for the Classroom
"""Baking is often thought of as a science. Cooking, on the other hand, is usually considered an art. This recipes in this cookbook work well as is, but can also be adapted and modified by artful, creative educational chefs to meet the specific needs of their students. Highly recommended!"" -- Roger Mantie, Program Director and Associate Professor of Music, University of Toronto Scarborough, and co-editor of The Oxford Handbook of Technology and Music Education ""Featuring a clear set of how-to instructions and ideas that are practical, imaginative, and sequential DL The Music Technology Cookbook: Ready-Made Recipes for the Classroom is the book 21st-century music educators have been waiting for. With recipes for the beginning technology user to the experienced, the Cookbook covers it all, earning itself a well-deserved spot on the bookshelves of elementary, secondary, and tertiary music educators. Brilliant and timely!"" -- Janice Waldron, Associate Professor of Music Education, University of Windsor"
