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]]> http://files.posterous.com/user_profile_pics/1551503/Ian_120x120.png http://posterous.com/users/eGaQMl0N69 Ian Willey Pylon Ian Willey Thu, 21 Jun 2012 07:19:00 -0700
The "My Note Games!" team have just got back from a great couple of days in Glasgow.
We were invited by Dr Gianna Cassidy to attendend a seminar at Glasgow Caledonian University on "Music and Games: Education and Wellbeing".
It was an amazing day with speakers from a wide range of backgrounds but all with different mixes of expertise and interest in Music Education, Music Therapy, Community Music and Music Technology.
Dr Raymond MacDonald introduced the seminar and planted his wonderful mantra "everybody has a biological and social guarantee of musicianship" in our heads.
Then Dr Felicity Baker, all the way from the University of Queensland in Australia delivered a fascinating and at times very moving talk on the use of songwriting in a music therapy context.
Next, educational consultant David Kirtlan showed us the entertaining results of his iPad band project with Leamore Primary School in Birmingham.
After coffee, artist, musician and game developer, Yann Seznec, showed us some of his projects that use technology to generate sounds and music in surprising and imaginative ways.
After Yann's mushrooms, Dr Tom Bancroft showed us some fruit in the form of the "Apple Banana Carrot" method. Through the company that he runs with jazz saxophonist twin brother Dr Phil Bancroft, ABC music have created software for schools that helps non-specialist teachers to teach baseline music skills and supports creativity and performance.
We then broke for lunch. For desert we had jam, or rather a fun bit of improvisation by David Kirtlan's un-named ad-hoc iPad band! :)
Then James and I presented "My Note Games!". I waved my hands about a lot whilst James talked about "music as tyranny"! We were lucky enough to have some willing participants in the audience who, with the aid of descant recorders helped us to demonstrate the App's sound recognition capabilities. We were very honoured to have former music teacher and Irish MP, Cecilia Keaveney, play all the way through Silent Night for us. Thanks Cecilia!
Dr Frederike van Wijck, Reader in Neurological Rehabilitation at GCU, presented projects that focus on how skill acquisition may be enhanced following acquired brain damage. These projects draw on technology from fields as diverse as robotics, game design and music therapy.
The penultimate speaker was Dr Don Knox. Dr Knox is a Senior Lecturer at GCU specialising in music information retrieval, music and emotion, and audio signal analysis and resynthesis for wellbeing. He talked us through some of the aspects of a recently completed an EPSRC Grant entitled “Music Emotion Classification”. It threw up an interesting discussion about whether waveforms could be analysed to determine the emotional content of music.
Last but by no means least was our host Dr Gianna Cassidy presenting work that looks into the evaluation and implementation of game and app technologies for music participation. She has recently completing the EPSRC Grant "Music Games: New Opportunities for Music Education." which also provided the funding for this fantastic seminar.
Finally there was panel discussion which was when I finally succumbed to the after-effects of the wonderful Glasweigian hospitality we'd been shown the night before! We then had to run away to the airport.
We'd like to thank our hosts Gianna, Raymond and Anna. We had a wonderfully stimulating time and have come away even more excited about the positive potential of music combined with new technologies.
Ian and James
]]> http://files.posterous.com/user_profile_pics/1551503/Ian_120x120.png http://posterous.com/users/eGaQMl0N69 Ian Willey Pylon Ian Willey Fri, 25 May 2012 06:30:00 -0700The "My Note Games!" team are pleased to announce that they have been shortlisted in the Desire2Learn Edge Challenge!
"Desire2Learn is challenging developers to shape the future of education by building apps that improve the experience of teachers, students and administrators."
We'll find out the results on June 1st. Fingers crossed! :DClick below for more details:
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Desire2Learn-Edge-Challenge/139839432796979
http://www.desire2learn.com/edgechallenge/
]]> http://files.posterous.com/user_profile_pics/1551503/Ian_120x120.png http://posterous.com/users/eGaQMl0N69 Ian Willey Pylon Ian Willey Fri, 23 Mar 2012 09:10:00 -0700A totally original and incredibly addictive music puzzle game for beginners to experts!
Listen to the notes, remember them and then write them with the simple drag and drop interface.
Learn and test your skill with infinite note, rhythm, pitch and scale puzzles.
This game will vastly improve your ability to remember and understand musical notation and phrases!
facebook.com/HearItNoteIttwitter.com/HearItNoteItCOMING SOON FOR iPOD iPHONE AND iPAD!]]> http://files.posterous.com/user_profile_pics/1551503/Ian_120x120.png http://posterous.com/users/eGaQMl0N69 Ian Willey Pylon Ian Willey Thu, 02 Feb 2012 23:00:00 -0800
Baroque Band is a half-hour long talk-come-teach-in that combines music history, music theory and lots of people blowing into recorders.
Baroque Band is inspired by the "fact" that the recorder was essentially the electric guitar of the seventeenth century.
With the aid of historical figures, an innovative app for music learners, and thirty-odd instruments, Baroque Band will attempt to re-boot* the recorder for the twenty-first century!
Shouldn't that be "re-toot" ? - ed
]]> http://files.posterous.com/user_profile_pics/1551503/Ian_120x120.png http://posterous.com/users/eGaQMl0N69 Ian Willey Pylon Ian Willey Tue, 17 Jan 2012 12:52:00 -0800
The winner will be determined by public vote, so please click above!
Appatta Ltd, the developers of 'My Note Games!' are chuffed to find themselves among the finalists nominated for a 'Learning Without Frontiers' award!
]]> http://files.posterous.com/user_profile_pics/1551503/Ian_120x120.png http://posterous.com/users/eGaQMl0N69 Ian Willey Pylon Ian Willey Tue, 10 Jan 2012 05:11:00 -0800
Here's a little video of the moment that the "App that listens to you play" met the "invisible expanding keyboard in space" :D
]]> http://files.posterous.com/user_profile_pics/1551503/Ian_120x120.png http://posterous.com/users/eGaQMl0N69 Ian Willey Pylon Ian Willey Sun, 01 Jan 2012 02:50:00 -0800
]]> http://files.posterous.com/user_profile_pics/1551503/Ian_120x120.png http://posterous.com/users/eGaQMl0N69 Ian Willey Pylon Ian Willey Wed, 14 Dec 2011 06:49:00 -0800
On Monday night James and I were the special guests on One Life Left, the computer games radio show hosted by Simon Byron, AnnScantlebury and Ste Curran on Resonance 104.4FM
Listen here
or download the iTunes Podcast here
We came up with the idea of the "Christmas Carol Challenge", where we would use 'My Note Games!' to help the presenters learn how to play Silent Night on descant recorders. As you can hear in the stream they all did jolly well!Here's a picture of James taking the team through the app before we went on-air:
Thanks again to the One Life Left crew. I'm now picturing them sitting around their Christmas Trees on the 25th, making amusing sounds with their wind instruments! :DIan
]]> http://files.posterous.com/user_profile_pics/1551503/Ian_120x120.png http://posterous.com/users/eGaQMl0N69 Ian Willey Pylon Ian Willey Tue, 13 Dec 2011 07:31:00 -0800The 'My Note Games!' YouTube channel has been updated with TWO great new videos!
and
Happy Holidays!
]]> http://files.posterous.com/user_profile_pics/1551503/Ian_120x120.png http://posterous.com/users/eGaQMl0N69 Ian Willey Pylon Ian Willey Wed, 07 Dec 2011 07:09:00 -0800
@MyNoteGames is going to be on @OneLifeLeft on @ResonanceFM on
Mon 12th December at 7pm GMT
Tune in or listen online!
]]> http://files.posterous.com/user_profile_pics/1551503/Ian_120x120.png http://posterous.com/users/eGaQMl0N69 Ian Willey Pylon Ian Willey Fri, 02 Dec 2011 06:59:00 -0800
http://itunes.apple.com/app/my-note-games/id470503027
]]> http://files.posterous.com/user_profile_pics/1551503/Ian_120x120.png http://posterous.com/users/eGaQMl0N69 Ian Willey Pylon Ian Willey Thu, 01 Dec 2011 06:30:00 -0800'My Note Games!' has now been updated to include a great new festive game "Play-A-Carol".
"Play-A-Carol" contains 16 classic Christmas carols for you to master on your instrument with the help of 'My Note Games!'
Get the updtae here: http://itunes.apple.com/app/my-note-games/id470503027
Happy Holidays! :D
]]> http://files.posterous.com/user_profile_pics/1551503/Ian_120x120.png http://posterous.com/users/eGaQMl0N69 Ian Willey Pylon Ian Willey Thu, 24 Nov 2011 07:41:00 -0800
http://itunes.apple.com/gb/app/my-note-games/id470503027?mt=8
]]> http://files.posterous.com/user_profile_pics/1551503/Ian_120x120.png http://posterous.com/users/eGaQMl0N69 Ian Willey Pylon Ian Willey Wed, 09 Nov 2011 16:01:00 -0800Click here to get 'My Note Games!'
]]> http://files.posterous.com/user_profile_pics/1551503/Ian_120x120.png http://posterous.com/users/eGaQMl0N69 Ian Willey Pylon Ian Willey Thu, 20 Oct 2011 04:03:00 -0700