Music, Creativity and Technology: An Example from Actual Practice

Step 1: Find music notation scribbled on a bathroom wall.

Step 2: Take a picture of it with your cell phone camera and post it online to ImageShack:

Step 3: Post a link to that photo on Reddit for others to see and discuss:

Step 4: Transcribe melody into Noteflight and create a custom arrangement of “Toilet Melody”:

click on Noteflight logo to launch score at Noteflight.com

Step 5: Repost Noteflight arrangement back on Reddit for others to discuss:

Credits:
Photo = TrippingChilly
Music Arrangement = Skynare

If this is how young people are using technology in their lives, how can we draw on this in the classes we teach?

Bonus points for identifying the origin of the tune in “Toilet Melody.”

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Erinn Wrobel Says:
November 30th, 2008 at 12:46 pm
Lincolnshire Posy. This means a band student defiled the toilet!
Andy Zweibel Says:
December 9th, 2008 at 12:43 am
Ooh I know this one!

“Horkstow Grange” from Grainger’s “Lincolnshire Posy”

Very cool, though, I’ve heard a lot about Noteflight over the past few days, and I’m going to look into it more now!