Music+Editing

**Music/Video Editing **

Music editing is very common in dance class. Students like to shorten, extend and mix their favourite songs to direct their choreographic process. Programs such as Garage Band, Adobe Audition and Audacity are common programs to be used in this environment. Students are using these in conjunction with ITunes to store, mange and download their music tracks. Whilst easy to use often require explicit demonstration or teaching within the classroom environment. Bojam is an online music collaboration site part of the Web 2.0 phenomena. It enables musicians to record and collaborate and share their music with the world. It also enables musicians to collaborate from different geographic locations onto the one track. One the track is laid down it has many features including being able to modify volumes and sounds of each instrument and manipulate for different uses. This program, whilst similar to Garage Band on the Macintosh Platform, enables musicians all over the world to come together to work together. More traditional uses of technology in performing arts subjects include video and still image capturing.

Programs such as Window Movie Maker and IMovie allow for easy video editing of dances and their respective music tracks. Whilst Photostory, IPhoto and Animoto are slideshow creation applications using still images with added music tracks to create presentations to provide evidence of progress of composition pieces. These applications are excellent for students to create their own journaling of the process and performance by adding captions, title screens and annotating the process. This can be used as a type of E-portfolio.