On 2 December 2024 I gave three workshops at HfMT Köln’s Thementag on AI and music education. The handouts covered data protection, AI tools for students, and AI in teaching. This post is the argument behind them — focused on the curriculum question that none of the tools answer on their own: what should change, and what should not?
A follow-up to the August 2023 latency post. The numbers were fine. The hard part turned out to be everything else: governance, maintenance, invisible labour, and why most Digital Music Labs quietly die after the grant ends.
The classroom videography manual we published in 2023 was about filming teaching. Music education has the same word in it — teaching — but it is a fundamentally different recording challenge. Sound is the subject matter. The lesson is often one person, in a practice room. And the feedback cycle the teacher needs to reach is mostly the one that happens when no camera is present. A reflection on what the manual missed, and a software prototype that tries to address part of it.