The 2024 MOLA Conference in Cleveland was a rocking success. The second annual tech fair began a four-day convergence of performance librarians, publishers, technology vendors, industry experts, and more, in this important area of music preparation and production.
Discussions from the 2024 MOLA Conference, along with an excerpt from the opening tech fair session, “Putting Technology into Practice in the Music Library”.
Composer and educator David MacDonald describes in detail how he teaches composition using the iPad Pro, Apple Pencil, and a suite of apps, and why he can’t imaging returning to the dead-tree way of doing things.
The Listening Machine is an ambitious project to generate automatically a continuous stream of music based on the activities of 500 Twitter users in the UK, from May to September 2012. The work was commissioned by The Arts Council in the UK for The Space, a pioneering public service joint venture between the BBC and The […]
A Lorca Soundscape is a new work by bassist-composer Alexis Cuadrado, reflecting on Federico Garcia Lorca‘s 1930 book Poeta en Nueva York with a series of jazz pieces that use the poetry by as lyrics. To be premiered at the Center for Latino Arts and Culture at Rutgers University in New York on 27 March, […]
Coming up in July are three opportunities to hear a remarkable new choral work in which singers sing parts derived directly from their own genetic code. The new piece, Allele, by Michael Zev Gordon, with text by poet Ruth Padel, will be performed by the New London Chamber Choir (NLCC), under the direction of James […]
It’s always a thrill to hear about Sibelius being used by young musicians starting out in composition, so it was a delight to receive an email from Walt Boyer, specialist music teacher at Atwater Elementary School in Shorewood, Wisconsin, about his school’s involvement in Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra‘s Arts in Community Education programme, which this year […]
Just before Christmas, I posted about the sleeve art for guitarist, composer and Sibelius user Pat Metheny’s new album, Orchestrion, which features a Sibelius 6 box lurking amidst the huge variety of musical instruments that cram the picture. (If you look really closely you can see Pat himself at the left-hand side, hiding behind his […]
This tutorial builds on some of the techniques first introduced in Creating cut-away or scrapbook scores and addresses some problems with scores containing 4 or more instrumental groups. It assumes familiarity with the earlier tutorial. Note: The term reappearance point is used to denote a barline where previously hidden instruments reappear mid-system: it is not […]
If you happen to be located in the Houston area, you may be interested to know that expert Sibelius and Tapspace Virtual Drumline user Bryan Harmsen of Visaudio Designs will be holding a masterclass in the Seven Lakes High School Band Room in Katy, TX on Wednesday 7 October at 7pm. The class costs just […]