Antony Murdica Education

 MUED1010 Week 1: In this class James Humberstone opened up the class in a very interesting captivating way. Without speaking he engaged in body persuasion and cued us in to repeat what he did. This continued on and progressively got more challenging and involved. This then led to sung melodies in unison to the rhythm of the body percussion. Many challenging variations of this went on whilst the room was then divided in to different harmony parts making it a whole class collaboration. This for me has been the coolest start to any class ever! After this activity had finished James explained to us that he was using the Orff pedagogy to engage the class in this activity. We haven't dived heavily in to this yet but from what I gather this pedagogy utilises body movement and physical cues to coordinate student activity and learning almost turning it in to a constructive game of call and response. I can see the value of this in the classroom as it demonstrates that actions are really mor...

  MUED4002 Week 1 Todays class was extremely valuable as we learnt how to navigate through the commonly used DAW/music software ‘Soundtrap’. It’s one thing to navigate through a DAW to create something musical but it's another thing to do so with such creativity that goes beyond the harmony and theory of music. We learnt how to alter music with tools such as volume/filter manipulation, slow down/speedup, reversing etc. This is incredibly important as it opens new creative pathways in the brain that theoretical/harmony knowledge can't give us. In today’s class we focused on making a loop with different layers. I think this form of learning is integral for students learning music as they are learning the rules only to have their creativity break them in a very positive way. It makes the learning process more personal and fun for the student when they are in control of so many variable’s within the creative writing/loop making process.  The layers I used in my loop consisted...