Selected reflections
Online lessons taught me that musical attention is partly spatial. Something about the room, the instrument in a room, the acoustics of a shared space — it carries information that a video call cannot.
Musician and educatorVancouver, BC
There is a particular kind of listening that happens in silence together. It does not happen on screens.
PerformerMontreal, QC
Digital environments reward speed and display. Musical depth requires the opposite. I find myself increasingly having to teach students how to be slow, how to sit with something without sharing it.
Music educator
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