The "certificate course tAPP - music with apps in cultural education", Matthias Krebs, Berlin University of the Arts

1. The
"certificate course tAPP –
music with apps in cultural
education"
Matthias Krebs
UdK Berlin Career College // FAM
www.forschungsstelle.appmusik.de
22 March 2018
creative skills europe Workshop
Berlin University of the Arts

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Agenda
• mobile music
• The "certificate course tAPP – music with apps in cultural education"
• echoes of the certificate course tAPP
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Bio
Matthias Krebs is a scientist, musician of the DigiEnsemble Berlin
and is one of the most renowned mobile music experts. He is a
studied music and media pedagogue, physicist and opera singer.
He is currently working as a research assistant at the Berlin
University of the Arts, where he heads the Research Center for
Mobile Music Making & App Music (Institute for Digital Music
Technologies in Research and Practice). Since 2009, he has dealt
with the systematic investigation of forms of musical practice with
digital music technologies, in particular the phenomenon of mobile
music making as well as the resulting pedagogic and artistic
implications of this changed musical practice. Furthermore, Matthias
Krebs is the author of numerous specialist articles on the topic of
technology-mediated music making and is regularly active as a
speaker at conferences, as a moderator and as a passionate blogger.
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MOBILE MUSIC
On the importance of mobile music making
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Smartphone and tablets are firmly rooted in everyday life in Germany
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Number of smartphone users in Germany from 2009 to 2016 (in millions)

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Mobile World: The networked society in transition
• The central element of the digital
transformation is the smartphone.
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Apps for the Internet of Everything
• Communication between people
• Control of devices and processes
• Apps as cultural techniques, as mediators
of world access (in the areas between
cultural traditions and everyday life)
(Imort 2009: 123)
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Mobile Music Making = Appmusik (in german)
• Music apps offer a powerful and
versatile set of (new) instruments.
They change the way people make
music and produce music.
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> 50.000
music apps http://forschungsstelle.
appmusik.de/digitales-
instrumentarium/ (DE)

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Elektronic music and improvisation
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FVxfx7tSrRo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gLLjRH6GJec
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HTYnGrARs3w

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All instruments are technologies
“The iPad is not LIKE a musical instrument, the iPad IS a musical instrument.
[...] The main point is that technology, all technology (keep in mind that the
clarinet and the tuba are technologies), in the hands of artist teachers, can be
used for musical good.” (Randles, Ruiz, Strouse, Griffis 2014)

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Established musicians experiment with music apps
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▶ Gorillaz – The Fall
Damon Albarn (Nov. 2010)
http://www.appmusik.de/neues-gorillaz-
album-auf-dem-ipad-produziert
▶ Herbie Hancock at Hamburger
Überjazz-Festival (2012)
http://www.abendblatt.de/kultur-live/article110382170/Herbie-
Hancock-Auf-der-Suche-nach-den-richtigen-Beats.html (DE)
▶ Björk – Biophilia (2011)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dikvJ
M__zA4
▶ Tablets used in the orchestra (2013)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MDRIW85-An4

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Apps in music education and in courses for adults
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How can that look?
Insights into the educational program of »app2music«.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cu4dsv4DU5c
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PfCxR0sFsRk

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Insights into the educational program of app2music: SpaceSymphony July 2015
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▶ SpaceSymphony / app2music
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EJ52cWEKKkk

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More insights into the educational program of app2music.
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http://app2music.de/atemlos-fuer-helene-fischer/ (DE)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sblyCmq_9t0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mg_WAQaoTWc

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Potential for inclusive and participative music projects
"The potential of the new is often recognized by the
currently excluded." (Rahel Kraska, via Facebook)
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https://www.youtube.com/
watch?v=uQqcktZEgCc

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Educational potential of music apps
• high calling character
• intuitive operation and direct control via touchscreen
• independent artistic creation enables a change of perspective from a passive-
consuming to an active-creative role
• new offers for children, adolescents and adulds with little experience in active
music making
• together making music in groups
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Cultural education offers with music apps
• For years, educational and cultural institutions such as schools, youth leisure
clubs, concert halls, museums, libraries and theaters have been increasing the
demand for projects in which a broad target group makes music with apps.
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Research Center for Mobile Music Making & App Music
The basic objective of the »Research Center for
Mobile Music Making & App Music« is to
systematize the hardly explored field of forms of
musical practice with apps, identify connections to
current trends in contemporary art and music and
explore social dimensions and impact on music
education.
The Research Center for Mobile Music Making & App
Music is an institution of the Berlin University of the Arts.
http://apps-in-music-education.com
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UdK Berlin, Bundesallee 1-12
http://forschungsstelle.
appmusik.de (DE)

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Employees of the Research Center for Mobile Music Making & App Music
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Matthias Krebs
Priorities
• digital media in teaching and research
• acquisition of digital musical
instruments
• Social Media & Online Communication
• adult education
• collective learning processes in music
making with technologies
Nadin Schmolke
Priorities
• project management
• Music Education and Cultural
Education
Marc Godau
Priorities
• informal music learning
• group processes
• systemic constructivist pedagogy
• technology-mediated music learning
• teacher professionalization

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THE "CERTIFICATE COURSE TAPP"
Continuing education for the digital knowledge society
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Aim of the certificate course tAPP
• In a continuing education program with a focus on music education, musicians
are enabled to initiate cultural projects that respond to the needs of a wide
range of addressees (children, adolescents, people with and without
disabilities). Those projects combine music and media education in order to
make them an integral part of offers that mediate towards art and culture.
• It aims to realize goals of music education, inclusion and cultural education.
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More: http://musik-mit-apps.de/weiterbildungskurs (DE)

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the certificate course tAPP
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Target group: Musicians of all genres from the classical violinist to
the hip-hopper to the rock guitarist and the DJ as well as music
educators and music educators ...

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Insights into the certificate course tAPP (DE)
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• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5-63eIpteKU

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Courses that have already taken place
• First course
• Aug 2015 to Jan 2016
• Second course
• March 2016 to July 2016
• Third course
• Oct 2016 to March 2017
• New courses for new target groups
• in 2018
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field I
MUSIC LEARNING
Music learning and teaching in academic
and extracurricular contexts,
Methods of music learning and
ensemble practice
field IV
EVALUATION PRACTICE
Sense of reflection and evaluation of
pedagogical practice,
Develop a research attitude
field II
MEDIA LEARNING
Learning with mobile digital devices,
Media education,
Life in the digital society,
Online tools
field III
CULTURAL EDUCATION
Cultural education,
Planning and design of offers,
Dealing with different addressee groups,
Communication and discussion
Learning fields of the certificate course tAPP

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Sonntag
22.05.
Montag
23.05.
Dienstag
24.05.
Mittwoch
25.05.
Donnerstag
26.05.
1. Block
9:00
2. Block
10:45
Eintreffen an der
Bundesakademie für
Kulturelle Bildung
Wolfenbüttel
Pflicht Pflicht Pflicht
Schulpraxis
Re-
flexion
Re-
flexion
Re-
flexion
Expert_innen-
ReflexionInterview
Pflicht Pflicht Pflicht
Selbstorganisierte Phase Ausblick
Interview
12:30-
15:00
Mittagessen
3. Block
15:00
4. Block
16:45
Beginn:16:00 Uhr
Plenum
Selbstorganisierte Phase
Re-
flexion
Re-
flexion
Re-
flexion
Forum
Ende der dritten
Phase
Selbstorganisierte Phase Wahl Wahl Wahl Wahl Wahl Wahl Selbstorganisierte Phase
18:30-
19:30
Abendessen
5.Block
19:30
-21:00
Pflicht Pflicht Pflicht
Forum/Diskussion Selbstorganisierte Phase
Öffentliches
Konzert
Interview
Timetable (DE)

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Lecturers of one certificate course tAPP
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Dr. Dirk Bechtel Dr. Gabriel Gatzsche Lydia Grün Markus Sommerer
Prof. Dr.
Joachim Ludwig
Christof Littmann Stefan Gisler Matthias Krebs
Judith Müller Nadin Schmolke Sebastian Schatz Marc Godau
Dr. Judith Seipold
Valerie
Krupp-Schleußner
Matthias Krebs
Phase 1 (4 days)
Phase 2 (4 days)
Phase 3 (4 days)
Phase 4 (4 days)

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Educational concept according to the principle of a knowledge community
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Learning as appropriation vs. Learning as participation

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Project of a musician from the certificate course tAPP
• Music with noises from our district
• http://musik-mit-apps.de/appmusik-mit-geraeuschen-aus-unserem-stadtteil/
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More Info
The course was brought along a weblog that was
implemented in all elements of the process.
Later we decided to open it up to community based
website.
On the website of the network tAPP you will find
contributions from different parties involved into
educational offers with music apps in cultural
education.
• Which goals can be pursued?
• Which apps have proven themselves in certain
situations?
• How can this offers be designed?
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www.musik-mit-apps.de

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ECHOES OF THE CERTIFICATE COURSE
TAPP
Current activities
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International symposium »MOBILE MUSIC IN THE MAKING 2017«
Present and future of mobile music making from the perspective of music education, art,
technology development and science.
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More info: www.mmm2017.appmusik.de/en

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Network tAPP
»tAPP« stands for app music projects in educational contexts.
The »Network tAPP - Music with Apps in Education« consists of various actors
from the field of app music in cultural education.
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Mehr dazu: http://musik-mit-apps.de/netzwerk-tapp (DE)

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Current research projects and collaborations of the Research Center Appmusik
• research project MuBiTec (2017-2020)
• The research project MuBiTec is a collaboration on two related sub-
studies in conjunction with the University of Cologne, the University of the
Arts Berlin, University of Erfurt and the University of Music Lübeck.
• recent collaborations
• VdM Baden Württemberg
• VDM Schleswig Hollstein
• app2music e.V.
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app2music_DE – Cultural education offers with apps in Germany 2018
app2music_DE – our initiative at „Kultur macht Stark“
• www.app2music.de/kulturmachtstark (DE)
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Workshops for new starters in Halle,
Kaiserslautern, Hannover, Berlin …

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Literature (unfortunately so far only in German)
directly to the certificate course:
• Krebs/ Godau (2018): Weiterbildung in der Digitalen Gesellschaft. Zur Theorie und Realisierung des
„Zertifikatskurses tAPP – Musik mit Apps in der Kulturellen Bildung“. In: Keuchel/ Werker (Hrsg.):
Pädagogische Weiterbildung für Kunst- und Kulturschaffende. Band 1: Innovative Ansätze und
Erkenntnisse. Wiesbaden: Springer VS (im Erscheinen).
• Godau/ Krebs (2017): Weiterbildung als Community of Practice? Zur forschungsbasierten
Entwicklung der Weiterbildung „Zertifikatskurs tAPP – Musik mit Apps in der Kulturellen Bildung“. In:
Cvetko/ Rolle (Hrsg.): Musikpädagogik und Kulturwissenschaft. Music Education and Cultural
Studies. Münster: Waxmann, S. 73-86.
• Krebs/ Godau (2017): MOBILE MUSIC IN THE MAKING 2017. In: Praxis des Musikunterrichts
(131), S. 54-55.
• Godau/ Krebs/ Schildhauer (2017): Weiterbildungsentwicklung für die digitale Wissensgesellschaft,
Kulturelle Bildung mit Apps. In: Zeitschrift Weiterbildung 1/2017, S. 8-11.
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More literature to the topic music with apps (unfortunately so far german only)
• http://www.matthiaskrebs.de/veroffentlichungen/
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We would like to invite you for discussion and
exchange.
• www.facebook.com/fam_udkberlin
• www.twitter.com/fam_udkberlin
• www.instagram.com/fam_udkberlin
• https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCFER5BQvcvccY-bkDXSMpsA
• www.forschungsstelle.appmusik.de
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Thank you for your attention!
We look forward to sharing with you.
Feel free to contact us:
forschungsstelle@appmusik.de
 www.forschungsstelle.appmusik.de
 www.musik-mit-apps.de
 www.app2music.de
 www.mmm2017.appmusik.de/en
 www.berlin.openlinkjam.com
 www.apps-in-music-education.com
 www.appmusik.de
 www.digiensemble.de