Eva's Proposal

The target audience of my service learning project is older adults who have a general interest in various music technologies. Currently, I am partnered with OLLI (Office of Lifelong Learning) and Lexington Philharmonic, where I assist in teaching a weekly course: Music Composition with Computers. For this next proposal, I would like to keep my current community partners the same: OLLI and LexPhil.

My goal is to build upon the knowledge gained in our current electronic composition course and offer a more general music technology course this summer, as many adults in our class have expressed interest in other areas of electronic music. For example, I have gathered that they’d like to learn of other Digital Audio Workstations and how to use them, other than our current projects using Soundtrap.

I will submit my proposal to the OLLI website (template attached) in hopes it will be approved for this summer. I look at this course as more of a continuation of our current music composition course, but more in depth. This is necessary because our students have expressed the want for further knowledge and continuation of music making on computers.

I want to learn more about this target audience because there is a lack of courses designed for older adults, especially technology and music based. I want to look at this as more of a therapeutic and expressive course, geared toward the accessibility of being able to express oneself. I believe I am able to teach this course because of my current position within this organization and my developed relationships with the current students.

Prior Experience:

Teaching a current OLLI course through LexPhil
Music technology courses throughout my undergraduate career Teaching online during the pandemic

Experts:

Addison Bird: fellow teaching assistant. janeisnotacoustic@gmail.com
Alexander Chadwell: current supervisor who proposed the course that I teach currently. alex@lexphil.org
Teresa Hager: OLLI course expert. teresa.hager@uky.edu

https://olliatuk.uky.edu/about/teach-olli-uk