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.
JMC Academy, a creative arts higher education provider with campuses in multiple states in Australia, has developed a unique model for its flagship post-graduate course, the Master of Creative Industries (MCI). Students are supported throughout the course to imagine, develop and deliver ways to collaborate across a broad spread of disciplines. This is not a discipline specific course. Most students have already established some level of portfolio career by the time they enter the course. The curriculum, however, drives collaboration throughout the two years, resulting in some truly cross-disciplinary results. As an example, in the graduating class at the end of 2024, a completed project, led by a student with a foundation in music and composition, released a 4 track EP. The student partnered with in-class colleagues with backgrounds in design, photography, videography, and creative writing to develop a marketing kit, complete with publication-ready photos, short length and song-length videos. This student then supported their colleagues by providing composition support to a 2d animation and created a series of soundscapes in collaboration with a video game designer. Without the in-built collaboration through the two years of this course, these outcomes across the cohort would have never been achieved. This presentation will explore how this curriculum has been developed and refined since initial delivery 8 years ago and will prompt others in education to pursue ways to engage in striving for meaningful cross-discipline outcomes.
