Welcome to the APME Memphis 2025 conference. Here, you’ll be able to register for the conference and update your Sched profile. The conference schedule will be available in late spring 2025. At that time, you can view the schedule and select the presentations you’d like to attend. If you have any questions, please visit our conference website or contact us at conference@popularmusiceducation.org We look forward to coming together as a community June 4–7, 2025.
This presentation will help musicians and educators reconsider limits to where (and how) music can be made. It is intended for those seeking to build literacy in digital tools that enable dyads or small groups of musicians to play, rehearse, and perform together in real time over the internet. This practice, known as telematics or networked music performance (NMP), can be achieved using a variety of free software applications. In this session, presenter Seth Adams will make music with individuals hundreds of miles away using the music teleconferencing application FarPlay. (Other software will also be discussed; Dr. Adams does not work for FarPlay.) In addition to live performances with musicians at distant locations, there will be an explanation of the software and connection process (prioritizing sound quality and minimal latency), a description of the minimum requirements for low-latency success, and a discussion of implementation strategies for NMP in music education contexts. Music education applications can include private lessons, band rehearsals, real-time improvisation, composition, or songwriting sessions, pre-festival sectional rehearsals, and more. These digital tools can also be used to provide equitable access to music education for student musicians who are disabled, immunocompromised, or otherwise cannot always be physically co-present with their peers or teachers. Attendees will leave with innovative new strategies and knowledge of digital tools that can bring musicians of all ages together when they are apart.
