Music Technology in Higher Education.
Carola Boehm · Staffordshire Online Repository (Staffordshire University) · 2005
To integrate an interdisciplinary field, such as Music Technology, into an academic discipline-segregated structure, such as that existing in our Universities, provides, in many ways, more challenges than opportunities: in research as well as teaching and administration. Several working groups and workshops, such as the EC funded CIRCUS Working Group (EU Working Group Circus “CIRCUS - Content Integrated Research into Creative User Systems,” 1998 – 2001, (8 March 2002). ), the invited EPSRC Music Technology workshop (EPSRC - Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council. Workshop on Funding of Music Technology, Harrogate, Febr. 2001), as well as the invited EC “creativity and technology” (European Commission. Technology platforms for cultural and artistic creative expression, Workshop, FhG Darmstadt, May 2001) have addressed relating issues of teaching not only music technology but other creative courses in HE. This article will present a short overview of this situation, fed by these workshops and my personal and professional experiences working with or in various academic institutions.