Tag Archives: learning

Connecting the dots: Learning to read music is worth the effort

By Ruben Kenig | Published: 26 November, 2010

Matt Stevens, the excellent loopist and guitarist, posed a question on Twitter recently, “Is it important for musicians to be able to read music?” This is a perennial discussion point amongst musicians and often seems to divide down the lines of those who already can and those who can’t favouring their own state. I’m in the can […]

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Hemmed in by signposts: Metaphors limit the scope of social media innovation

By Ruben Kenig | Published: 24 August, 2010

Metaphors are a crucial part of how we relate to the digital world. They are crucial in one sense as the low-level languages that computers use are incomprehensible to humans. All our spangly, shiny Powerpoint presentations and music libraries are streams of hexidecimal or binary digits to our processors and disk drives. Unless you’re very special […]

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Using Social Media: Don’t Forget to Listen

By Ruben Kenig | Published: 26 August, 2009

A new study by San Diego State University reveals that US college students believe that their generation use social media for, “self-promotion, narcissism and attention seeking.” This may well be true but I believe that this is due to the users rather than the medium. Social media provides excellent opportunities for listening and discovery. Just like in […]

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