Category: People of the MusEDLab

Profiles and stories of MusEDLab students, staff, alums, and partners.

People of the MusEDLab: Yilu Guo

Yilu Guo

DREAMER, CREATOR, DOER

f. yilu.guo

Currently a Staff/faculty

 

 

 What project are you currently working on?

MusEDLab International Expansion Plan; Meditation Album “In the Bamboo Forest”

What do you like about working at MusEDLab? 

 

Self-directory working environment; Everybody here is being really supportive to each other; Never stop exploring new things; You will always get inspired.

What excites about music education and technology?

How to design project-based interdisciplinary music education by leveraging the new tech?

Your current favorite song?

“La Vie En Rose” by Melody Gardot

People of the MusEDLab: Martin Urbach

Martin Urbach

ACTIVISM, LIBERATION, ENJOYMENT

f. Martin Urbach

t. @mrmartinisays

Educator

 

What project are you currently working on?

I am working on creating a comprehensive curriculum that is informed by critical pedagogy, informal music learning, social justice activism, youth development, anti racist practices and adaptive technology for learners of all abilities.

What do you like about working at MusEDLab? 

 

The people are mighty brilliant, amazing, giving, warm and funny.

What excites about music education and technology?

We are in fertile ground to revitalize that which is stagnant, revive that which is dead and heal that which is broken in music education. We have the tools and we have the people and we have the technology AND we have the students. Now we just have to do it, together.

Your current favorite song?

“Freedom” by Beyonce ft. Kendrick Lamar

People of the MusEDLab: Sumanth Srinivasan

Sumanth Srinivasan

RADIOHEAD, IS, AMAZING

t. @reckoner165

Alumni

 

 

What project are you currently working on?

I’m currently working on a physical game that personifies internet protocols into Kafkaesque role playing.

What did you like about working at MusEDLab? 

A very friendly atmosphere and freedom to pick and choose the work I can commit to. Also leeway to learn on the job.

What excites about music education and technology? 

I learnt music informally and almost exclusively via internet and computers. I see it has come a long way. I’m always excited to give back to this community.

What advice would you give to prospective students at MusEDLab?

Pick a field you don’t know too well and feel your way through it. It’s very gratifying.

Your current favorite song?

Soon by My Bloody Valentine

People of the MusEDLab: Sunny Choi

Sunny Choi

CURIOUS, DRIVEN, RESILIENT

f. sunnychoimusic

t. @thesunnychoi

Currently a Student

 

 

 

What project are you currently working on?

I’m currently working on developing an online music course in partnership with Soundfly, where I take

the course subscribers through my creative process for reinterpreting songs from today’s latest popular music as solo piano music.

As an active member of MusEDLab all throughout the summer, I’m on the committee team to prepare for the launch of our annually-hosted IMPACT Conference that’s to be held from August 1-5. Our conference theme this year is on music experience design for education, health, interactive media and social impact.

I’m also active as Steinway & Son’s popular music recording artist for Spirio pianos, providing my uniquely interpreted solo piano music on today’s popular music

What do you like about working at MusEDLab? 

I consider MusEDLab as my “safe space”, where I feel entirely free to explore all of my curiosities that are related to music. Music is not just some abstract subject that is to remain exclusive amongst certain individuals, but a powerful path that contributes to the development of one’s being. At the lab, I invest time in getting to know cool people that are doing innovative things with music. Some of these people may include educators that are embedding technology in their classrooms, physicians that are interested in connecting the brain activity of music with medicine, and technology companies that passionately care for developing tools for music learning for people in the 21st century. The definition of music is rapidly changing with the evolvement in technology, and it could not be a more exciting period than now to research and explore how music is experienced today.

Your current favorite song?

“Brand New” Day by Hiromi

 

People of the MusEDLab: Ethan Hein

Ethan Hein

DOCTORAL FELLOW, ADJUNCT

t. @ethanhein

Currently a Student

 

 

What project are you currently working on?

All things Groove Pizza and aQWERTYon, creative music making curriculum, Soundfly

What do you like about working at MusEDLab? 

Getting to realize some longstanding dreams about creating great music making and learning tools.

What excites about music education and technology? 

My most meaningful music education has come about through creative experimentation with software and it’s an experience I’m eager to share with more people.

Your current favorite song?

“Cranes In The Sky” by Solange.