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Teaching and Learning with Nimbra Technology
Royal College of Music in Stockholm, Department of Music Education. Stockholms Musikpedagogiska Institut.ORCID iD: 0000-0003-2250-3939
Stockholms Musikpedagogiska Institut.
2023 (English)In: Academic Freedom and Responsibility in Music Education and Research, Örebro, 2023Conference paper, Oral presentation with published abstract (Refereed)
Abstract [en]

Teaching and Learning with Nimbra Technology

What do you do when you want to play a particular instrument and no teacher of that particular instrument can teach you where you live? This is the case for several music students at Ålands Musikinstitut (ÅMI) at Mariehamn. One way to solve the problem is to employ a teacher to travel to the school of music. However, the distance is always far – as Åland is situated in the middle of the sea between Sweden and Finland so such travel is not possible on a regular weekly basis. Another solution is to use digital communication technology that can enable such a music educational meeting. In this project, we analyse the educational and didactical affordances such long-distance communication technology provides. We will present the high-fidelity fibre technology of Nimbra with an extremely low latency of five milliseconds.

Given that latency, playing music together in real-time is possible. For a couple of years, a cello teacher from Stockholms Musikpedagogiska Institut (SMI) has been teaching students at ÅMI via this technique an arrangement that we have started to follow. In the research project, we will look at crucial issues of music didactic communication – sonic attunement; sound and frequencies, rhythm and tightness; visual contact; mutual eye contact, instrument, score; and tactile contact. By employing a multimodal social semiotic theory, we will present how we examine how multimodal semiotics translate to the digital presence. Does all the semiotics translate? If so, to what extent? Does it communicate at all “levels” of music knowledge development – from the level of beginners to advanced level? These questions lead to a recapture of frame factor theory regarding physical frames and the qualification of the student and teacher. An overarching aim of the study is therefore to map out the future need for music educational reforms with regards to the entrance of such digital equipment and the digital literacy that follows.

Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Örebro, 2023.
Keywords [en]
music education, one-to-one tuition, low-latency, distance education, Nimbra
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Educational Sciences Other Humanities not elsewhere specified
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URN: urn:nbn:se:kmh:diva-5228OAI: oai:DiVA.org:kmh-5228DiVA, id: diva2:1828663
Conference
Nordic Network for Research in Music Education, Örebro Universitet, Musikhögskolan I Örebro, 28–30 March 2023.
Available from: 2024-01-17 Created: 2024-01-17 Last updated: 2024-01-17Bibliographically approved

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