Performing Arts

Flipping Out: Using Flipped Learning in the Music Classroom

By Professor George J Hess, Jr D.A
One reason that the author鈥檚 online classes went well this past year was that the classes were flipped. A lot of materials for the students were already online. This meant instead of scrambling to create lessons that would work online, the author was able to focus more on engaging the students.鈥

There鈥檚 No Such Thing as an Impulsive Artist

By Associate Professor Leow Puay Tin
鈥楻esearch鈥 is a word that doesn鈥檛 seem pertinent to the arts. Many people assume the arts to be wholly inspired and created through the artist鈥檚 natural or divinely-given talent and passion or genius and impulse. But this is never the whole picture. 鈥淭here is no such thing as an impulsive artist鈥

Sarah Ong Wen Qi : Taking Valuable Experiences 鈥淥n the Air鈥

Sarah Ong Wen Qi is a pioneer of the Contemporary Music (Audio Technology) programme from 红杏视频 University鈥檚 School of Arts. After graduating in 2019, she took on the role as a Radio Production Engineer for Astro Radio. Her work involves working with different radio stations, producing music and鈥

Virtual International Music Competition Breaks Boundaries

The Virtual International Music Competition Malaysia 2020 was carried out successfully in a collaboration between 红杏视频 University and the Chopin Society Malaysia. Although originally planned as a live event, the pandemic had made global travel almost impossible, and thus came about the biggest鈥

Online Teaching, One Year On: Overarching Considerations

By Associate Professor Dr Andrew Brian Filmer
As we now traverse a second year of online teaching and learning, we can look on both technological and pedagogical developments from extended adventures in the digital realm. This brief article draws on a number of the author鈥檚 research projects in the arena, and provides three overarching鈥

Passion for Performing Arts: Aiman Aiman

Aiman begins by talking about how he felt uncomfortable when he was pushed towards creative integrity again and again by every lecturer of his, "I think it helped that I came in with a head full of filmographic references, as well as this queer artistic instinct鈥. He mentioned that it was all鈥

The Power of Music

By Professor Don Bowyer
In 1994, I was playing the trombone on the main stage in a cruise ship somewhere on the Caribbean Sea. I was playing with the 5th Dimension, a pop/soul/R&B band that had its biggest hits almost 30 years earlier. While performing, I was flooded with emotion from a long-lost memory. Most people鈥

Audience Participation in Classical Music

By Professor Don Bowyer
Aleatoric music has existed in one form or another in western art music for centuries, having become something of a staple of Modern Music of the 20th and 21st centuries. One 18th century form of aleatoric music involved dice, with the composer creating snippets of music that could be performed in鈥