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Meet TIPS' Music Editor, Chris Chater

"Christopher Chater has been teaching Electronic Music at the American School of Paris for close to twenty years and has been using M.I.D.I. in class for more than ten. My Lower School students use portable mini-keyboards in conjunction with recorder literature, then learn to play their compositions to a click beat into a sequencer from which the music can be printed out as a published score. Upper Schoolers have their own production studio based on a high-speed pentium system where digital multitrack is co-resident with harddisk recording in anticipation of future multimedia applications via internet and CD technology. For many years he has organized Music Technology presentations and resource centers for ECIS conference events.

"Contrary to past predictions, computer literacy does not isolate musicians. The progress made in establishing international M.I.D.I. standards permits extensive collaboration, and encourages creative exchanges. More students than ever before are seeking instruction on acoustic instruments including voice, so technology is percieved as a useful tool rather than a diminishing form of expression.

TIPS is lucky to have Chris on board and we think the international community will directly benefit as he, in his own words, carries "the MIDI torch" forward. Welcome Chris. [Ed.]

Greetings from the Paris suburbs, where spring is finally taking its revenge on homework and lesson plans! I hasten to admit that while I have been using MIDI in school for many years, it has been on equipment that has subsequently become obsolete, with the result that this year I am again a beginner in many ways. So I'll be sparing with my wisdom until I can finally learn to configure my new PC.

First of all, take a visit to one of these school pages where the music has been composed by students of various ages.

School Pages

ASIJ Music Composition ASP Music Compositions Patch High Music Department Composers In Electronic Residence The Young Composer's Guild

These are just a few examples of what will most certainly become a steady trend in the next few months. Multi-media is already invading the net at a rate we are unable to keep up with. So we need to learn some of the newer instruments of the orchestra.

The following links are only roughly classified and categories often overlap: send me your thoughts on an appropriate CyberDewey!

More soon on setting up a MIDI studio in a classroom.

Electronic Music

: Sites of Interest to Electronic Musicians
The best is CIER (Composers in Electronic Residence) at http://www.edu.yorku.ca/CIERmain.html run by my buddy Dave Beckstead who has infinite patience and vision (he used to teach Middle School Music) Arachnaut's Lair - Electronic/Experimental Music Links (by Jim Hurley
Computer Music Journal Web Link File
Computer Music Journal Home Page
Music on the Internet: Computer-related
A BRIEF HISTORY OF ELECTRONIC INSTRUMENTS
Infoseek Guide: Electronic music
A two voice paradoxical canon

Mac users will find the following links helpful

: Harmony Central: Software: Mac
The Macintosh MIDI User's Internet Guide
Twin Cities MIDI: MIDI on the Macintosh (updated Jan. 18, 1998)

MIDI

The Midi Music Pages Music Notation and Music Notation Programs

Newsgroup: alt.music.midi

Yahoo- Entertainment:Music:Genres:Computer Generated:MIDI

Chad Gould's MIDI links

MIDI Home Page

Fil's FAQ-Link-In Corner: LinkIn: Midi

The Arachnaut's FTP E-Music Software List

Music FTP

http://www.loria.fr/~pagel/MEGA/,MEGA MIDI Archive

Standard MIDI Files on the Net

Music on the Internet: Downloadable

Classical MIDI Archives

Directory of /pub/MIDI/SONGS

Index of /ftp/contrib/midi/bestmidi/

Home Page de Cowon MacLeod's Home Page

http://www.synapse.net/...estmidi/indexes/all.txt

Standard MIDI Files on the Net - HTTP & News

Directory of /midifarm/pub

http://www.dzp.pp.se/midi/miditune.html

MIDI files

Wayside - MIDI Music Collection

Gerd's MIDI Pages: The Collection

THE CLASSICAL MIDI CONNECTION

Classical MIDI Archives

InfoSeek Titles: midifiles

Directory of /midifarm/pub/midifiles/General_MIDI

Music ftp Sites

WWW Virtual Library: Music - FTP Archives

Internet Music Resource Guide

Music - Lyrics

Point Communications Corporation: lyrics

Lyrics server

Great Lyrics

Yahoo - Entertainment:Music:Lyrics

Lyrics server

Title Search

Music - Social Studies

Index of /bobcatftp/pub/beatles/

Ancient Music <

Sound and Healing Links

Music Resources

Internet Music Resource Guide

Nerd World : MUSIC

Music Publishers

Musical Web Connections Table of Contents

EMUSIC-L WWW Site

Keyboard Central

KEYBOARD (US) Magazine Homepage

Musician's Web

Music Resources on the Internet

Yahoo - Entertainment:Music:Indices

Music Technical

: Software; Harmony Central: MIDI Tools and Resources; Steinberg France; Evolution Home Page; Software Net Product Menu; Music Software Mail Order; EMSPG; Electronic Music Software Priceguide
: Hardware; USA New Gear Price List January 19, 1996; digitalNation WWW
: Journals; Sound On Sound - PC Notes; FutureNet: Future Music January '95 - Netters to the Editor; KEYBOARDS WEB MAGAZINE; Francophone Keyboards Mag

Music Education

: Music K-12; gopher://ericir.syr.edu...n/.lesson/lessons?music; Music Curriculum Resources; Sea World Songs; Music Educators National Conference Website; Herb's Music Box; Music Instruction Software; http://music-in-motion.com/; The Music Educator's Home Page; MIDI Resources for Teachers; K-12 Resources For Music Educators; Newsgroup: k12.ed.music

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