This is a guide for music educators. It offers lots of tools and advice for setting up your studio and/or classroom. Created by MacPhail’s EMRA
Teaching Music Creation: the Studio & Equipment
Teaching Music Creation: Approaches Tips & Tools
This is a guide for music educators. It offers teaching tools and methods for students to create their own music. Created by MacPhail’s EMRA
EMRA Director Michael Cain collaborates with Boston Ballet
MacPhail and Smart North – A Powerful Partnership
On a weekday afternoon last month, Terrell “Carnage” Woods walked into a community tech hub for youth in downtown Minneapolis. A beatboxing instructor at MacPhail Center for Music, Terrell had …
A Concert for Peace: Q&A with Michael Cain
This season’s MacPhail Presents! includes a special performance, A Concert for Peace, featuring all original compositions. Michael Cain answers questions.
Fostering Music Creating with Michael Cain
MacPhail Electronic Music Recording Arts (EMRA) Director, Michael Cain discusses the wave of content creation, creativity, and improvisation among teacher and student.
The Space Where Words Fail: Asha Belk
This season’s MacPhail’s Spotlight Series joins important visual artists with our accomplished musicians in special performances. Our culminating performance brings the narrative photographer Asha Belk to Antonello Hall on Saturday, …
Tune Tools Episode 3
Tune Tools is a podcast hosted by Krysta ‘K. Raydio’ Rayford. Krysta interviews musicians, music educators, students, and shares her own experiences to help us learn about the tools of electronic music and recording arts. In each episode, you’ll hear real life examples about the tools of making music in the digital age.
Teaching Music Improvisation with Michael Cain, Ep. 5
This improvisation series with Michael Cain is designed for music educators working with middle-and-high school aged students. This is a five part video series.
Teaching Music Improvisation with Michael Cain, Ep. 4
This improvisation series with Michael Cain is designed for music educators working with middle-and-high school aged students. This is a five part video series.
Teaching Music Improvisation with Michael Cain, Ep. 3
This improvisation series with Michael Cain is designed for music educators working with middle-and-high school aged students. This is a five part video series.
Teaching Music Improvisation with Michael Cain, Ep. 2
This improvisation series with Michael Cain is designed for music educators working with middle-and-high school aged students. This is a five part video series.
Tune Tools Episode 2
Tune Tools is a podcast hosted by Krysta ‘K. Raydio’ Rayford. Krysta interviews musicians, music educators, students, and shares her own experiences to help us learn about the tools of electronic music and recording arts. In each episode, you’ll hear real life examples about the tools of making music in the digital age.
Teaching Music Improvisation with Michael Cain, Ep. 1
This improvisation series with Michael Cain is designed for music educators working with middle-and-high school aged students. This is a five part video series.
The Art of the Playlist
an educational perspective by Isaac Rohr Overview: This article is written for music educators within K12 (general music or academic music). College-level music educators interested in curriculum development and research. …
Scratch DJing for Beginners
This unit (1 of 3), Scratch DJing for Beginners, includes the history and evolution of DJing and DJing tools of the trade.
Tune Tools Episode 1
Tune Tools is a podcast hosted by Krysta ‘K. Raydio’ Rayford. Krysta interviews musicians, music educators, students, and shares her own experiences to help us learn about the tools of electronic music and recording arts. In each episode, you’ll hear real life examples about the tools of making music in the digital age.
A Four-Class Music Curriculum (Ages 11-18)
This after-school curriculum is designed for music educators to help their middle or high school students explore ways of creating music to visual images. Designed to be 5-6 classes. Uses DAW (digital audio workstation) and other tools.
Behind the Beats in 209 with EMRA Director Michael Cain
Join Electronic Music Recording Arts (EMRA) Director Michael Cain for an exclusive tour of Studio 209 at MacPhail Center for Music!
Barbara Cohen, Intro to Scoring for Film and Visual Media
Imagine the opening credits of a movie. The musical score begins with plucky strings, light drums, and a bouncy glockenspiel. What genre of film are you about to see? Judging …
An Electronic Approach to Music Making…with MacPhail’s EMRA Director Michael Cain
How many ways can you make music? At MacPhail Center for Music, we believe there’s no limit. Playing an orchestral instrument is one method. Programming digital technology is another. We’re …
Understanding Electronic and Electroacoustic Music as Foundational in K-12 Music Education
EMRA Program Director and Teaching Artist, Michael Cain discusses Electronic and Electroacoustic Music in this third of three Professional Development Sessions. Other EMRA Professional Development Sessions:
Cultural Competency in Music Education
EMRA Teaching Artist, Krysta Rayford discusses Cultural Competency in this second of three Professional Development Sessions. Other EMRA Professional Development Sessions:
Using iMovie for Music and Teaching
EMRA Studio Coordinator and Teaching Artist, Isaac Rohr discusses how to use iMovie for music and teaching in this first of three Professional Development Sessions. Other EMRA Professional Development Sessions:
Interview with Robin Eubanks
Robin Eubanks is the premier jazz trombonist of his generation. Whether performing with his groups, Mental Images or EB3 or with The SF Jazz Collective, Dave Holland Quintet / Big Band, …