Previous Remix Schedules
The 2023 Remixing General Music Date is TBD
2021 Session Titles and Presenters (Virtual)
Straight, No Chaser: Tackling Racism in the 21st Century
Dr. Joyce McCall, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Nurturing the Non-Musician: Applying Traditional Methods and Contemporary Models
Gillian Desmarais, Hanover Public Schools, Massachusetts
Understanding Trauma: Therapeutic Applications of Hip-Hop and Beatmaking
Dr. Elliot Gann, Psy. D., Today's Future Sound, Executive Director
Beatmaking with the Groove Pizza
Ethan Hein, Doctoral Fellow in Music Education, NYU Steinhardt
Music Inside Out: A Glimpse into Medical Music Therapy and Techniques that Transfer to the Classroom
Julia Summers MA, MT-BC, Northridge Hospital Medical Center, California
Teaching Instrument Families with Shapes
Shawna Longo, Hopatcong Schools, New Jersey
2020 Session Titles and Presenters
The Risky Business of Music Education
Dr. Vicki R. Lind, Co-author "Culturally Responsive Teaching in Music Education, From Understanding to Application", University of Arkansas at Little Rock
Remixing with Hip-Hop Ethics
Dr. Adam Kruse, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Pop Music Aural Skills
Miles Comiskey, Lane Tech College Prep High School
Production Through Performance: A New Way to Teach Tech
Bob Habersat, shedthemusic.com
Making Music with Max: A Programming Language for Sound
Stephan Moore, Northwestern University
Cover Song Creation Through Technology and Informal Music Learning
Vince Genualdi, Saint Viator High School
Guest Panel: Audio and Recording College and Career Opportunities
Yuri Lysoivanov, Flashpoint Chicago, Thomas Miller, DePaul University, Stephan Moore, Northwestern University
A Community Response to Student Stress and Trauma
Jim Arey, Elk Grove High School
Music Fluency: How Technology Refocuses Music Creation and Composition in Education
Dr. Barbara Freedman, author "Teaching Music Through Composition: A Curriculum Using Technology", Greenwich High School
"Bus down, get busy": Lessons learned at hip-hop camp
Dr. Adam Kruse & Professor Lamont Holden, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Teaching Music with Technology: Lessons that Work!
Dr. Barbara Freedman, Greenwich High School
#DAWLife: Beat-making
TheLetterLBeats
Pilot ILMEA Student Programming and & PD Event
Vince Genualdi & Gina Wych, Saint Viator High School and Minooka Community High School
Energy as Currency: Using Hip-Hop as a Transformative Tool
MotherNature
2019 Session Titles and Presenters
"They don't think it be like it is, but it do": Teacher Concerns about Hip-Hop and Music Education
Dr. Adam Kruse, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Music's all we got: A story of a high school hip-hop course
Brandon Catt, Glenbard East High School
Exploring Informal Music Learning
Vince Genualdi, Saint Viator High School
Sampling: A lesson from Julie Andrews
Vince Genualdi, Saint Viator High School
#DAWLife
TheLetterLBeats
Beat 101: First steps in teaching production
Miles Comiskey, Lane Tech College Prep
Rap and Freestyling
Dr. Adam Kruse, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Unpacking a Hip-Hop Philosophy
Professor Jarritt Sheel, Berklee College of Music
Really?!! Me teach hip-hop????
Dr. Maud Hickey, Northwestern University
I think I heard You: Critically listening to Hip-Hop
Professor Jarritt Sheel, Berklee College of Music
Free Improvisation in the Music Theory Class
Matt Karnstedt, Libertyville High School
Alternative Controllers and Introduction to Synthesis
Sigi Mueller
Live Audio Mixing and Sound Boards
Vince Genualdi & Mike Smolenski