APPLICATION OF ICT IN MUSIC INDUSTRY

This seminar covers the area of application of Ict in music, meaning of music and ICT, It has long been acknowledged that the music technology can improve pupils' compositional skills. A powerful case for the use of technology in KS3 music was made in the publication 'The Creative Dream' by G. Odam (published by NAME in July 2000) which argued that pupils could only access the 'creative' curriculum if they had appropriate access to ICT. One teacher who recently moved from a relatively traditional set of classroom resources to a set-up with a clear emphasis on ICT simply said 'Composition has improved immeasurably'. This seems to be the message - pupils using ICT gain a much better awareness of structure, texture and melodic, rhythmic and harmonic patterns / devices.