Hive NYC Learning Lab presentation by Carnegie Hall and Building Beats.

1. Digital Music Production Workshops
Cohort 7
Presented by Carnegie Hall and Building Beats

2. Summary of Workshops
Focus of the digital music
production workshops is to
give young people from
across New York City an
opportunity
• To work side-by-side with
professional musicians
and producers
• to explore digital
production techniques
used in hip hop, rap, and
R&B
• Receive hands-on
experience with creative
software, laptops,
tablets, microphones,
and audio mixing
consoles.

3. Recruitment
• Building
programming
in underserved
communities
• Targeted
brokering this
opportunity as
a next step for
students
engaged in
school and
community
settings

4. Workshop Format
• Started
each
workshop
with a 15
minute
warm-up
activity

5. Workshop Format
• Topical focus
aligned with a
creative
challenge
• Example –
Alternative
Controllers

6. Workshop Format
• Creative work in
small groups

7. Workshop Format
• Group
sharing of
creative
work and
reflection

8. Workshop Successes
• Assessment
• Professional
Work Flow
• Brokering
and
Recruitment
• Workshop
Online
Resources

9. Challenges & Resolutions
• Workshop
Format –
balancing
“lessons” with
creative work
• TA Professional
Development –
rotating lead
TA’s to building
TA experience
• Share-Out and
Reflection –
provided best
practices for
structure and
student
leadership

10. Cohort Prompts
CHALLENGE:
Due to the format of our workshops, it was
difficult to build in reflection time with the TA’s
after the students left.
QUESTION:
What are some other approaches to nurturing
and facilitating ongoing reflection among TA’s
and program staff?

11. Cohort Prompts
CHALLENGE:
Production work at professional DAW’s is
resource-intensive and difficult to scale. Our
lesson on iPads felt like the most ‘scalable’ of
the 8 lessons.
QUESTION:
What are some ways that other organizations
are thinking about spread & scale of resource-
intensive work?