Every year thousands of musicians, industry folk & fans roll into Austin for SXSW music – including a bunch of us from Berklee. Before the music portion starts, thousands of nerds roll in first for SXSW interactive & film. Of course I mean nerds in the most awesome sense – designers, programmers, educators, social media [...]
Author Archives: Erin Genett
Send us your Tunes!
October 26, 2010 – 8:50 am
If you’ve seen Take 5, Rising Star, and other PULSE videos, then you already know what a large role music plays in the production of the PULSE videos. As you can imagine, we listen to and create a lot of music in search of just the right tone for the project at hand. Now, we [...]
PULSE Practical Skills Video Shoot
October 4, 2010 – 11:21 am
Snapshot: A quick photograph; a brief summary or profile; one day of production madness with the PULSE video team and tons of talented musicians. If you stopped by the set at The Loft on July 27th, then you know we held nothing back for this shoot for PULSE’s Practical Skills unit. A professional photographer. Three [...]
Planning the PULSE Training Institute (isn’t easy)
May 28, 2010 – 1:31 pm
For the past 3 years summers, we’ve held a training event for City Music Network teachers & administrators about how to teach using the PULSE Music Method. This event started out pretty small and a little chaotic, but nevertheless was a great learning experience for everyone, especially our team. Since then, the website, our team, [...]
Rock Band & Rock Stars: PULSE Celebrates!
April 28, 2010 – 1:20 pm
Last week, the PULSE team celebrated some of our recent accomplishments with an afternoon pizza party. There’s been quite a bit to celebrate recently, including 2 new episodes of Take 5, the brand new PULSE index to catalog the vast amount of resources on the site, adding the violin to the practice room and finishing [...]