Music Ed & AI
News, research, and ideas from the intersection of music education and artificial intelligence.
Gifts for Music Teachers They'll Actually Use (From a Music Teacher)
Shopping for a music teacher? An insider's guide to gifts they'll actually love, from classroom must-haves to mugs with jokes only they'll get.
Read moreSix Presenters, Three Conferences: Who to Learn AI From This Season
When I see AI in a session title, the first thing I look up is the presenter. This season, six music educators across the Maryland MEA Fall In-Service, The Midwest Clinic, and the ACDA National Conference are teaching AI to their peers. Here is who they are, what they bring, and why they are worth your travel budget.
Read moreNo such thing as “Close Enough”
Tuning a chord is like tuning an AI model. You can get pretty darn to close to perfect, but close only counts in horseshoes and handgrenades.
Read moreAudio to sheet music - Recent News and a Ten Year Outlook
Two weeks of AI-in-music-notation news, a research model that reads audio and notation as one, MuseScore's free audio-to-score launch, Soundslice's steady feature updates, and an AI project recovering thousand-year-old Gregorian chant, add up to more than a string of headlines. Read together, they trace a path from lab research to a free tool already in millions of classrooms, while still being honest that choir and ensemble music remains the hardest case to crack. The piece closes by projecting
Read moreIf it’s not measured, is it happening at all?
We think there is a gap in AI music education research, and we want to do something about it.
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Staking Our Claim: Why Music Educators Should Feel Good About Being AI Pioneers
Well pardner, out here in the AI frontier there ain’t no marshal, no map, and no manual, just open land and folks bold enough to ride it first. This week we’re testin’ toddler-wielded Swiss Army knives, tradin’ notes with a fellow gold-panner buildin’ his own rig from scratch, and starin’ down a stubborn ol’ beast that still can’t read sheet music after two years of tryin’. Grab your hat. It’s time to stake our claim.
Read moreCan AI Make a Great Program for My Concert?
It's the week before the concert. You've got the setlist locked. You've got a hundred other things pulling at you: sectionals to run, risers to schedule, a kid who still hasn't turned in their release form. And somewhere on your to-do list, in smaller and smaller font each time y
Read moreAI Adoption in Choral Music Education - TCDA 2026 Poster Session
This study tries to answer three questions around AI Adoption in Choral Music: Where are we now, what are the blockers, and what should we expect from the future?
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