Dr. Craig Naylor from the Department of Music is the organizer of a small group of students called the Electronic Music Collective. These students create original electronic compositions using the Electronic Music Studio.
Each year, the Collective does a concert where they play back the compositions they created that semester. I attended this concert a few years back, and was stunned by the quality of what the students had produced. One thing that also struck me what how those compositions were played once, and then never heard again unless you were pals with the composer.
Once Podcasting hit the scene, I thought of how it could be a great way for students in the EMC to showcase their work. After some repeated nagging from Martha Burtis and me, Dr. Naylor agreed to try this out this semester.
So, we are proud to announce the Electronic Music Collective blog and podcast site: http://marthaburtis.net/collective/. We are just getting this up and running, but expect great things in the future as the students in the Collective decide how they want to use this new broadcast media.
For this project, we built the EMC a group blog in WordPress. Each student has the ability to post to the blog, so this is a group project. In the future, we imagine graduated Collective members could still post their compositions, ideas or comments to maintain a connection to the group.
We also made use of the PodPress plug-in to make posting the MP3 files easy, and provide an easy way for visitors to the blog to either listen online, download the file, or subscribe to the collective podcast feed.
When you have a hankering for some original electronic music, give the EMC blog and podcast a listen!
Very cool, and just in time for my road trip to Maryland. Congratulations to you, Martha, and the EMC. Have you submitted the URL to the iTunes Podcast Directory yet? Also try Podcast Alley and the iPodder directory (D’Arcy Norman keeps their ed stuff up to date–might be worth pinging him too).
Fame and fortune await!