A quote

“Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn.”

—Benjamin Franklin

Blog coverage of the New York Philharmonic’s Digital Archives

Here is a thoughtful post on Open Culture about the New York Philharmonic’s Digital Archives project, as well as some early impressions and highlights from The Atlantic Wire and Alex Ross’s blog, The Rest Is Noise.

Collaborations: Yo-Yo Ma and Lil Buck

Yo-Yo Ma and Lil Buck perform at an event to support keeping the arts in schools.  The collaboration itself is an elegant argument for the cause.

Open Culture blog celebrates Carnegie Hall anniversary

Open Culture, a site that chronicles the best free cultural and educational media on the web, celebrated Carnegie Hall’s 120th anniversary this week with a vintage clip of Heifetz  playing the first movement of the Tchaikovsky Violin Concerto.

Electronic music and design from Philadelphia

From the Cooper Hewitt National Design Museum’s Design Blog, a post on the work of Chris Kucinski and Owen Osborn, a.k.a. Critter & Guitari, a Philadelphia-based design duo.  Their devices bring together design and electronic music in interesting and engaging interfaces for music technology.

International network jamming

Collaborative media performance software jam2jam supports local or distance collaboration, allowing users to collaboratively manipulate music and video.  J2J is supported by an active international research community and has developed a tool for visualizaion and analysis of collaborative jam sessions.

Creative music interface

“Imagine a room where music is produced by touching the wall or the floor…” EAMIR (Electro-Acoustic Musically Interactive Room), an open-source project exploring new interfaces for digital music, creates new pathways to musical expression and creativity. Check out the video playlist on the homepage, which gives an overview of EAMIR’s featured projects.

Notation 2.0

MuseScore.org’s free music notation software goes social at MuseScore.com. Currently in its “alpha” version, MuseScore’s social music site includes a tool for synchronizing notated music with YouTube videos, called “Video Scores,” as well as basic social tools for sharing and collaboration. The software is also open source.

Noteflight is an online notation suite that includes sharing and collaboration features.  Basic accounts on the Noteflight public website are free; for a fee, they offer a premium account (called “crescendo”).  Noteflight Learning Edition addresses the needs of the Music Education community (K-12 and higher ed), including integration with learning management systems, learning activities and assessments, and closed groups for classroom sharing.

LilyPond is the free, open-source notation software used by the Mutopia Project.

iPhone and iPad music

Mashable rounds up 10 top music videos created with the iPhone and iPad.

Firebug

Firebug web development tools for Firefox–fantastic tools for getting to the root of the problem, and capable of doing so much more!