Category Archives: music
Inclusion matters – ideas for inclusive music making, teaching and sharing
I recently attended the Hackney Learning Trust’s music education conference on the 24th of April [...]
Autism and Music therapy – a starting point – “first you imitate then you innovate”.
“First you imitate, then you innovate” (Miles Davis) This quote by Miles Davis I think [...]
Tips for inclusive music making.
Inclusive music making is where it’s at, and one that is at the heart of [...]
4 of the best portable speakers around
Here is a quick snapshot of what’s on the market in terms of portable speakers. [...]
Autism and Music Therapy – An Introduction
In my interactions with service users, teachers, parents, carers and people involved with autism I [...]
Highlights from the Music Education Expo March 2013
The Music Education Expo – 2013. This was the Show’s first year and with a [...]
Nugget 6 – Experimental Brain Research – Music & Expression
Measuring Expression in Musical Performance Our 2008 paper, published in Experimental Brain Research. This [...]
Nugget 5 – Kinetic Consequence from Mind to Body
In the course of the early noughties, Dave and I began trying to square the [...]
Nugget 4 – We got Rhythm!
Published in a special edition of the German Encyclopaedia of Neuroscience, this next nugget is [...]
Nugget 3 – to sing and Dance together!
Now a chapter written with the magnificent Professor Colwyn Trevarthen, an inspiring font of knowledge [...]
Nugget 2 – Islands in the Stream – Synchrony – shared goals and communication
Here the ideas develop further both in terms of theories about Rhythm but also in [...]
At Last a Mount for Skoog…
So for a while now we have been looking at different alternatives for mounting the [...]
Scottish Invention Strikes a Chord at Great Ormond Street Hospital
‘Oh GOSH, there’s a Skoog loose in the Hospital’ Great Ormond Street Hospital wins innovative [...]
Trabasack working in unison with Skoog.
Great little video showing Skoog being used with Trabasack . Here the Skoog player is [...]
Inclusive music making with the Skoog
This video of the P5 assembly performance at Glaitness school has put a smile on [...]