Digital Music Production Workshops Cohort 7

Presented by Carnegie Hall and Building Beats

Summary of Workshops

Focus of the digital music production workshops is to give young people from across New York City an opportunity • To work side-by-side with

professional musicians and producers

• to explore digital production techniques used in hip hop, rap, and R&B

• Receive hands-on experience with creative software, laptops, tablets, microphones, and audio mixing consoles.

Recruitment • Building

programming in underserved communities

• Targeted brokering this opportunity as a next step for students engaged in school and community settings

Workshop Format

• Started each workshop with a 15 minute warm-up activity

Workshop Format

• Topical focus aligned with a creative challenge

• Example – Alternative Controllers

Workshop Format

• Creative work in small groups

Workshop Format

• Group sharing of creative work and reflection

Workshop Successes

• Assessment • Professional

Work Flow • Brokering

and Recruitment

• Workshop Online Resources

Challenges & Resolutions

• Workshop Format – balancing “lessons” with creative work

• TA Professional Development – rotating lead TA’s to building TA experience

• Share-Out and Reflection – provided best practices for structure and student leadership

Cohort Prompts

CHALLENGE:

Due to the format of our workshops, it was difficult to build in reflection time with the TA’s after the students left.

QUESTION:

What are some other approaches to nurturing and facilitating ongoing reflection among TA’s and program staff?

Cohort Prompts

CHALLENGE:

Production work at professional DAW’s is resource-intensive and difficult to scale. Our lesson on iPads felt like the most ‘scalable’ of the 8 lessons.

QUESTION:

What are some ways that other organizations are thinking about spread & scale of resource-intensive work?