Play With Your Music 2.0 – Featuring the music of Peter Gabriel

Students will explore creative music production through working with two of Peter Gabriel’s famous multi track recordings – “In Your Eyes,” and “Sledgehammer.” Learners will use the latest web-based production tools, analyze songs of their choice, and mix, remix and share their work, helping to build an audience for their music. The course will be augmented by interviews with musicians who’ve performed and recorded with Peter Gabriel, including Jerry Marotta, percussionist on Gabriel’s So album, from which both tracks were taken, and Kevin Killen, Gabriel’s sound engineer. Supplemental instructional content on audio FX techniques (Alex U. Case, UMass Lowell) and songwriting (Phil Galdston, NYU Steinhardt) will also be available.“I am a big fan of what the Peer 2 Peer University is trying to do to open up education to the world, and am very happy to be supporting this music project with NYU Steinhardt. It should make the world of music production much more accessible for those who want to explore it,” said Gabriel.“This course creates a unique opportunity for anybody with a computer and an Internet connection to learn the ins and outs of creative music production through working directly with musical multi track recordings of music legend, Peter Gabriel,” said Alex Ruthmann, Associate Professor of Music Education and Music Technology at NYU and lead designer of Play With Your Music.The course builds upon the success of the first iteration of #PWYM, which attracted 5,000 learners in the fall of 2013. New learners will explore multitrack recordings in Soundation’s online Digital Audio Workstation, and are supported by the active Google+ community of over 1,700 members and the bustling SoundCloud group which has over 30,000 listens. “We are particularly excited about designing examples for online learning that look nothing like a typical course, but take advantage of the loose and distributed nature the web has to offer” said P2PU learning lead Vanessa Gennarelli.

The “Play With Your Music” course in partnership with Peter Gabriel is free and open to all participants. For information on how to sign up, visit playwithyourmusic.org.

About NYU Steinhardt Department of Music and Performing Arts Professions:

Steinhardt’s Department of Music and Performing Arts Professions was established in 1925. Today, 1,600 students majoring in renowned music and performing arts programs are guided by 400 faculty. The department’s degree programs—baccalaureate through doctorate—share the School’s spirit of openness and innovation that encourages the pursuit of high artistic and academic goals. Music and Performing Arts Professions serves as NYU’s “school” of music and is a major research and practice center in music technology, music business, music composition, film scoring, songwriting, music performance practices, performing arts therapies, and the performing arts-in-education (music, dance, and drama).

About P2PU:

Peer 2 Peer University (www.p2pu.org) is a community-driven education project that organizes learning outside of institutional walls and gives learners recognition for their achievements. P2PU creates a model for lifelong learning alongside traditional formal higher education. Leveraging the internet and educational materials openly available online, P2PU enables high-quality low-cost education opportunities.

About Peter Gabriel:

Peter Gabriel is an English singer-songwriter, musician, and humanitarian activist who rose to fame as the lead vocalist of the progressive rock band Genesis. His 1986 solo album, So, is his most commercially successful, selling five million copies in America. A six-time Grammy winner, Gabriel has won numerous awards throughout his career. In recognition of his many years of human rights activism, he received the Man of Peace award from the Nobel Peace Prize Laureates in 2006, and in 2008, TIME magazine named Gabriel one of the 100 most influential people in the world. Gabriel was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a member of Genesis in 2010 and as a solo artist in New York on April 10, 2014.