Robotics technology has moved on considerably since films like iRobot came out. The guys at Boston Dynamics have been at the epicenter of advancing this technology and to celebrate the new year (2021), they decided to program three of their robots to dance for us. Watch their brilliant music video.
Dance Video
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https://www.themusicman.uk/robots-dance-boston-dynamics
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Help Amplify Austin Kids by going to https://www.amplifyatx.org/organizations/texas-music-partners.
Your generous donation will help do the following:
This year we will be raising money for tablets and equipment for our teachers so they can come into the schools to teach our central Texas students. Each teacher kit costs about $3,000 and provides everything the teacher and student need to successfully take our courses.
Many of the students we reach each year have parents, who of no fault of their own, are without the means to offer their children new or used equipment they need to try new things and branch out. Texas Music Partners tries to reach these students by offering them a tablet and the education to try new and creative things. Something other than watching movies and playing games. We do care and we want to show it so a child can catch that creative, innovative “itch” to find something they can relate to. Something that will invigorate their creative energy to make them happy kids and better students. Won’t you help?
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Texas Music Partners will once again be participating in Amplify Austin Day. Amplify Austin Day is a day of giving through I Live Here I Give Here to help raise funds for over 750 nonprofits in the central Texas area. Amplify Austin Day takes place on March 4th -5th, from 6 PM to 6 PM. Early giving has already started. If you wish to make a donation to TMP or help us fundraise, feel free to do so by going to https://www.amplifyatx.org/organizations/texas-music-partners.
This year we will be raising money for tablets and equipment to provide our teachers so they can come into the schools to teach our central Texas students. Each teacher kit costs about $3,000 and provides everything the teacher and student need to successfully take our courses.
TMP provides STEAM education (Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, and Math) to students to help them prepare for the demands of our future job market by adding a creative component to STEM. Being able to think more creatively will allow our kids to be successful and help keep this country’s future workforce the most sought after in the world!
Compared to most people, Jake Lorefice was one New York University music technology master’s degree more prepared to roll with the pandemic’s punches and modify the Montauk School’s music program, setting his sixth graders up for podcasting success.
Students’ Chromebooks came to the rescue with “really wonderful software” that Mr. Lorefice was familiar with thanks to his degree. After doing a piano lab with mini desktop keyboards that plugged into the Chromebooks, he turned his sixth graders’ attention to podcasting, which required only a microphone plug-in.
What his students came up with was “next level, you would never expect it,” he said. He was wowed by how his students wielded their autonomy. “I just gave them the prompt and let them go. Explain something that kids understand, but adults don’t.”
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Texas Music Partners (TMP) has been an arts provider with MINDPOP since 2017. The Creative Learning Initiative (CLI) is a project through MINDPOP that ensures students have access to the arts, creative teaching, core content areas, and elective courses. This spring, CLI is starting a new project for elementary school students called the Spring Season of Arts Experience in which selected arts providers to offer their courses to AISD schools to be presented by the arts provider or AISD teachers. We are honored that CLI has chosen Texas Music Partners to supply two of our courses for this project so we may reach more students and let them experience music and technology to help them find a creative passion. The courses that TMP will be providing are:
Texas Music Partners would like to thank MINDPOP’s Creative Learning Initiative program and AISD for this opportunity to reach central Texas students and help realize our mission.
With concert venues closed, musical careers must be forged on streaming platforms instead.
It’s been an awful year for the majority of artists who make most of their income from gigs and touring. Yet a small but growing number are harnessing the latest tech to break through on Spotify, YouTube and TikTok.
Musicians like Jayda G and RAC have bounced back from canceled tours to secure Grammy nominations with the help of apps like Distrokid, Submithub.com and fortunes.io. The tools help artists to distribute and market their work, share out royalties, break into popular playlists and identify which songs resonate most with listeners.
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Texas Music Partners will once again be participating in Amplify Austin Day. Amplify Austin Day is a day of giving through I Live Here I Give Here to help raise funds for over 750 nonprofits in the central Texas area. Amplify Austin Day takes place on March 4th from 6 PM to March 5th at 6 PM. Early giving has already started. If you wish to make a donation to TMP, or help us fundraise, feel free to do so by going to https://www.amplifyatx.org/organizations/texas-music-partners.
This year we will be raising money for tablets and equipment to provide our teachers so they can come into the schools to teach our central Texas students. Each teacher kit costs about $3,000 and provides everything the teacher and student needs to successfully take our courses.
TMP provides STEAM education (Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, and Math) to students. This helps them prepare for the demands of our future job market by adding a creative component to STEM. Being able to think more creatively will allow our kids to be successful and help keep this country’s future workforce the most sought after in the world!
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In the weeks after last year’s Mardi Gras celebrations, New Orleans experienced one of the most explosive COVID-19 outbreaks in the country. Since then, music has largely been missing from a city that depends on it.
Sonya Robinson, co-director of the arts education nonprofit Artist Corps New Orleans, says one reason why music education has been slow to start back up in New Orleans is the disproportionate impact the virus has had on African Americans.
Public schools began to gradually reopen in late September, and by mid-October, the district’s 45,000 students had the option to learn in-person at least several days a week. While the district doesn’t offer detailed guidance on how to teach music during the pandemic, it is permitted: Bands and choirs can practice outdoors as long as they remain socially distanced and adhere to their school’s maximum group size.
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Ben Ma first realized the power of music to connect people as a volunteer DJ.
“I used to DJ at retirement homes, at food kitchens, at rehabilitation centers,” he says. “As a 15-year-old, I couldn’t really relate to a 70-year-old in a retirement home. But I did some research and listened to requests and realized that playing music that we both enjoy is something that creates the seed of a personal connection. And we can expand on that.”
As Ma grew up in San Jose, California he was simultaneously discovering his love for technology. After joining coding summer camps in the hopes of being able to make video games, he discovered the multitude of uses of programming languages and enrolled in computer science classes in high school.
Upon his admission to the USC Viterbi School of Engineering, Ma hoped to combine his passion for music with his interest in technology. In the laboratory, Ma assisted with creating algorithms to analyze the body’s physiological responses to hearing music. Data obtained in this way can have incredible applications in understanding exactly how music manipulates our emotions, and how it can be used to bring people together.
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What if your digital assistant could battle rap? That may sound far-fetched, but Gil Weinberg, a music technologist at the Georgia Institute of Technology, has adapted a musical robot called Shimon to compose lyrics and perform in real time. That means it can engage in rap “conversations” with humans, and maybe even help them compose their own lyrics. Shimon, which was intentionally designed to sound machinelike, is meant to be a one-of-a-kind musical collaborator—or an inhuman rap-battle opponent.
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