This week Nick Averwater continues his conversation with Gillian Desmarais, who teaches Music Production and Engineering at Harmony Learning Center in Maplewood, MN. Gillian is the founder of Sound Tech Ed, a website that provides resources for music programs that allow students to learn and grow with music technology. She has also been named to the 2024 Yamaha 40 Under 40 list of music educators, and was named 2024 Teacher Of The Year by TI:ME.
In this episode Gillian will share some ideas for music educators who want to introduce music technology into their classroom, or expand upon what they are already using.
Our conversation was recorded August 12, 2024. We've broken it up into three episodes, and this is part two.
Here are the different music technology resources Gillian mentions in this episode:
FL Studio
Soundtrap
Garage Band
Launchpad
BandLab
Logic
Ableton Live
Cubase
Ableton Push
Akai MIDI Controllers
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