INTERACTIVE MUSIC MAKING
AN INTERNATIONAL PROJECT
Welcome to CYBERMUSIC WORLD an interactive music making page,
that
has been developed to enable a group of young Australian
composition students
the opportunity to share their musical
creativeness with music students from
around the globe.
I am also a keen jazz enthusiast and this is another musical
In 1995 a group of my students joined an international music This initial project was one of the very first examples of Since these early attempts at creating a cybermusic This page is also an interactive music making page where Via the exchnage of musical ideas between the partners in The links provided, will enable you to visit our partners,
COMPOSITIONS FROM THE The following compositions are the result of our CHRISTINE is a piece than began with an idea by Christine, a THE TECHNOCRAT was an attempt by Australian students to MOJO is the result of a combined effort by a group of girls. CRAX TO MAX is the final example of works created by students COMPOSITIONS CREATED DURING 1996/97 MUNCHKIN was composed by Emma, a year eight student.It BRAVI is the second composition of Verginia who was in
© 1997 michael.caesar@rka.com.au
senior music teacher at the bilingual Australian/French Lycee
"Telopea
Park School" in Canberra, Australia. As a teacher I
am eager to share my
experience as a composer with my
students and I encourage them to explore
Information
Technology as a resource for their creative efforts.
experience I
eagerly share with my students. This is why
I have included a special Jazz
section within this page.
composition
project. Students from Germany, Canada, Japan
and Australia were linked
through the internet by Email
and by a slow process of encoding and decoding
of midi files,
they were able to share their musical experiences and
create
a number of original and truely international compositions.
The
"cybermusic experience" had begun.
how the
internet could be used as a working resource within
a school setting. At
that time,(1995),it was at the cutting
edge of Information Technology and the
learning process
within Australia. The initial project was the subject of a
publication which is now on the www.
classroom, our
colleagues in Germany have developed an
easier method for exchanging midi
files. This is via the
use of home pages similar to this one. As you
will
discover during your visit, there are many examples of
completed
cybermusic compositions available for you to
listen to. Simply click on the
selected choice and listen.
students will
continue to share their creative ideas with
students in other countries via
the continuation of the
project. To achieve this, examples of work in
progress
will regularly feature as a part of the "Cybermusic
Project
1998/99". Feel free to listen and explore these
works in progress.
the project,
musical compositions will evolve. These
completed works will feature as part
of the ongoing
collection in the "Cybermusic Experience"
around the
globe. If you are a teacher and would like to
join in the project with your
students, then please contact
us.
© 1998 Michael & Dom
Caesar
INTERNATIONAL COMPOSITION PROJECT
1995/96
collaboration during
1995/96. DREAMS, KIRISAME and OLDENBURG
were based on a series of small
musical cells in the Aeolian
mode. They served as the basis for all three
works. Dreams
represents the Australian version, Kirisame is the
Japanese
version and Oldenburg is the German version.
a student in
Germany. It was developed by students in
Australia.
compose a Techno
piece. It made use of drum rhythms from
Germany.
Again, they
made frequent use of material and ideas from the
students in our partner
countries.
in Australia
during 1995/96 as part of the international
composition project.It made use
of ideas from Germany and a
melodic phrase from Vancouver.
(These works do not form part
of the International Project.)
was
subsequently performed on several occasions by the school
instrumental
ensemble.
year 9 at
the time. This piece for piano and alto saxophone
was presented in the 1997
Young Composers Festival in
Canberra Australia.
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