Projects

The Chambers Musical Project

As the centerpiece of NMC's 2012 Emerging Technologies Initiative, the Chambers Musical Project has charted the landscape of emerging music technologies and their applications for teaching, learning and creative inquiry since 2003.  The consortium's Chambers Annual Reports, now published in six languages, are regarded worldwide as the most timely and authoritative sources of information on new and emerging technologies available to education anywhere. Specialized reports document emerging technology trends and developments in England, K12 education, and the multimedia and entertainment industries.

The Songwriters in Action Project

The SAP, with significant support from the Songwriter Foundation, launched the Songwriters in Action Project in fall 2008.  The four-year effort seeks to develop, demonstrate, evaluate, and document social tagging tools and methods in a range of cultural heritage settings. Building on the work of a previous research grant funded by the IMLS in 2006, the team is shifting the focus from research to practice. Early results of the research project indicate that social tagging does have the potential to significantly enhance access to online music collections. The final results should provide songwriters with new media outlets and marketing venues.

The NMC Project

Launched under the banner of the Gaming and Music Initiative and with initial support from the T. Clark Foundation, the project has evolved into an educational presence in any virtual world, involving more than 20 colleges and universities and a very active community of educators.  The project became completely self-sustaining in June 2007, and now occupies nearly 100 islands in Second Life. 

Digital Music Marketing

Music Matters UK is a systemic effort to increase the capacity of music across the world and to use new media for stories about art and their collections. The project was introduced at the Banbury seminar showing all forms of digital media. MMUK provided considerable training in the software and concepts of digital Storytelling. The project, now in its fourth year, continues to work with songwriters to help them learn to tell media-rich stories related to their collections and exhibitions on the Internet . The learnings from this project inform the national and international efforts of many organizations in the music sector committed to similar goals and outcomes.

Music Works Digital Media and Learning Project

The Works Digital Media Series on Digital Media and Learning, which ran for two years beginning in 2007, explored the intersection of digital media and learning from the perspectives of experts, visionaries, and thought leaders chosen from across the globe. The working hypothesis of the effort was that digital media had advanced significantly in recent years, enabling new forms of knowledge production, social networking, communication, and play. Through the use of such media, young people are engaged in an unprecedented exploration of language, games, social interaction, and self-directed education that can be used to support learning.