The power of a simple post such as this one is that it demonstrates that a piece of music can sit along side the conversations that are being had about that piece of music.

A post in a Weblog can also help a musician to document how they made a piece of music by digitally recording each step in the creation process. This can be achieved by the use of simple software that digitally records video and audio. These files become powerful artefacts in demonstrating the music making process.

For example the very basic video recorded in this performance was achived by using a music creation program known as jam2jam. Once compiled together the movie file was uploaded to Youtube.com and then inserted into this post by a Wordpress plugin.

This process is helpful as it allows muscians to publish their works online relatively cheaply. However what is lacking is a method for documenting who the owner of the work is and how the work was made. Tradittional paper based methods use citation systems to handle this. While electronic systems are now only starting to address the problem of authorship by introducing meta-data systems.This paper suggests that a curated performance may be a way of meeting this need.

Author: Paul Stephensen, (MCI.CD)

Email: p.stephensen@qut.edu.au

Data for musicological research might as easily be a video or an audio recording as a text or notated transcript.  The management, organization and presentation of these data involve textual analysis and presentation in written form which can often exclude the compelling aspects of digitaly recored music and sound performances. This paper focuses on the development of an approach through case studies of five music postgraduate students. The research outlines a co-development process with users adapting the software development as Research (SoDaR) method (Brown 2007). Furthermore it addresses the critical problem in software research of user uptake and examines the issues that arise from the use of ePortfolios in institutional settings.  The paper focuses upon the idea of developing useable systems for music research which enables music to be present in the conversation about music and addresses the critical issues of implementation.

Biography

Paul Stephensen is a web designer and internet researcher with degrees in digital media, communication and design and information technology. Paul has six years of experience in the information technology industry and 2 years of experience as a website designer and postgraduate research student. Paul is currently completing his second master’s degree.

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Brown, Andrew R. (2007) Software Development as Music Education Research.  International Journal of Education & the Arts 8(6).

Blinco Kerry, et al. (2004). Trends and Issues in E-learning Infrastructure Development. A White Paper for alt-i-lab 2004 Prepared on behalf of DEST (Australia) and JISC-CETIS (UK). Bristol, U.K, the Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC), .

Ravet, S. (2007). For an ePortfolio enabled architecture Position Paper (v 1.1), Eiflel: 9.