Tag: Education
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The Ten Rules of Techno
“You’ve invented educational techno” goes the first comment on this video, and pretty much sums it up, Oscar from Underdog goes through the rules in under 5 minutes with a banging acid track. I wish all music lessons were this much fun! Video makes me think oddly of Adventures in Success by Will Powers…and the…
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Disney and Don’t Say Gay
I’ve been watching several of these videos and they sum up not just what’s wrong in Florida and Disney with the Don’t Say Gay bill they helped fund (as did many other corporations including the new owners of Sky and Dreamworks) but also wider problems – with class, representation, and exploitation. The latter point is…
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Free lessons on harmonics, waves and dissonance
I stopped geeking about microphones and audio interfaces for a second and got dragged into a rabbit hole on harmonics, waves and dissonance. (long story, involving trying to remove room tone/echo so I can record in the bathroom). I dropped in on Adam Neely‘s channel for a video about of all things, Celine Dion (?)…
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Happy Birthday Sesame Street!
50 years ago today a kid’s program debuted in the United States which was to change the lives of millions of children worldwide – Sesame Street. A mix of muppets and modern educational psychology, the idea was to reach urban kids and those who weren’t getting good early schooling with basic lessons to give them…
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Singing Together
Schools musical programs are amazing, and one of the longest running in the UK was ‘Singing Together’ on BBC Radio, where kids sang along with songs live across the country. Jarvis Cocker presents this fascinating elegy for the live music show that taught children songs but without National Curriculum nor testing, just a joy of…
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Dolly in Poplar 1977
Soundhog said that the other videos on the person who uploaded the Shoreditch Experimental Music School were worth checking out, and he wasn’t wrong. A veritable trove of London history. Here Dolly Scannell talks about how Poplar has changed in 1977. It’s the YouTube site of Chris Dorley-Brown who apparently did a BBC In The…