Content/Description

This training course offers specific teaching modules for body- and perception-oriented music-making activities in the classroom, integrating apps as ‘instruments’ of multifaceted digital music forms in digital cultures.

The focus is on three teaching modules that enable students to experience elementary ways of playing digital performances and their specific physicality: Embedded in both guided and exploratory music-making projects, the modules deal with physical experience, musical tensions and dynamics, various playing techniques, song accompaniment, and the question of the associated cultural contextualizations. In addition, a variety of links to curricular topics such as ‘music and body’ and ‘music and movement’ as well as (cultural) diversity are highlighted.

The development of the teaching modules and materials is based on a fundamental study of digital performance practices. 

The results of this study were incorporated into a training concept in the BMBF-funded COMeARTS_Musik project at the University of Cologne, part of the lernen:digital network. The concept development was closely monitored by teachers, and the modules were tested with teachers both in the classroom and at various training institutes in the federal states.