Alex Adams
@alexadamsmusiced.bsky.social
Teacher, Musician, DocSong Teaching Artist, Grad Student @ ASU.
Focused on: Culture, Identity, Quantification, Narrative, Dialogism, and learning from other folks
www.mralexadams.com
Focused on: Culture, Identity, Quantification, Narrative, Dialogism, and learning from other folks
www.mralexadams.com
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"Great technology does more than solve problems. It weaves itself into the world we inhabit."
Sure. But the same is true for the most vile or broken technology.
Sure. But the same is true for the most vile or broken technology.
December 5, 2025 at 10:41 PM
"Great technology does more than solve problems. It weaves itself into the world we inhabit."
Sure. But the same is true for the most vile or broken technology.
Sure. But the same is true for the most vile or broken technology.
I've been thinking about music education and AI over on substack. There are big questions and I'm not sure we're up to providing the answers.
We still need to talk about Suno
Some more thoughts on AI music making, Musical Meaning, and Music education
substack.com
December 4, 2025 at 3:19 AM
I've been thinking about music education and AI over on substack. There are big questions and I'm not sure we're up to providing the answers.
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Your life is worse off because too many white people hate Black people.
November 3, 2025 at 12:50 AM
Your life is worse off because too many white people hate Black people.
The world might be stupid but there are still amazing things and people in it. I went to a dia de los muertos celebration last night and there was a tremendous amount of music, color, and joy. Traditions and culture are important.
October 26, 2025 at 5:00 PM
The world might be stupid but there are still amazing things and people in it. I went to a dia de los muertos celebration last night and there was a tremendous amount of music, color, and joy. Traditions and culture are important.
I’ve been working with a private school’s k-12 music program.
It is really interesting to see the possibilities that open up for centering independent lifelong musicianship on students’ terms in that space.
It is really interesting to see the possibilities that open up for centering independent lifelong musicianship on students’ terms in that space.
October 16, 2025 at 11:52 AM
I’ve been working with a private school’s k-12 music program.
It is really interesting to see the possibilities that open up for centering independent lifelong musicianship on students’ terms in that space.
It is really interesting to see the possibilities that open up for centering independent lifelong musicianship on students’ terms in that space.
New: Reflecting on real world teaching problems through solving them together- a reflection from some recent music teacher education classroom experiences.
Taking Stock
Sharing real world problems with students for real world learning
substack.com
October 8, 2025 at 6:13 PM
New: Reflecting on real world teaching problems through solving them together- a reflection from some recent music teacher education classroom experiences.
Sometimes the best question to ask isn’t “how can we do better?” but “should we be doing this at all?”
September 25, 2025 at 1:10 PM
Sometimes the best question to ask isn’t “how can we do better?” but “should we be doing this at all?”
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Ric Grenell, who runs the Kennedy Center, appears to have set aside tickets for hecklers to disrupt the K-Center performance of an artist who got in a heated exchange with him months ago:
Log Cabin Republicans Disrupted Yasmin Williams’s Kennedy Center Performance - Washingtonian
Staffers say center president Ric Grenell's office set aside passes for the group, which booed and heckled the musician.
www.washingtonian.com
September 24, 2025 at 9:29 PM
Ric Grenell, who runs the Kennedy Center, appears to have set aside tickets for hecklers to disrupt the K-Center performance of an artist who got in a heated exchange with him months ago:
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To ‘ultra-crepidate’ (19th century) is to lecture others on subjects you know very little about.
September 23, 2025 at 5:11 PM
To ‘ultra-crepidate’ (19th century) is to lecture others on subjects you know very little about.
@hankgreen.bsky.social Which way did people turn things before clocks were invented?
We use the terms clockwise and anti-clockwise now but clocks are not a natural thing? How did people refer to those kinds of rotational movement before clocks?
We use the terms clockwise and anti-clockwise now but clocks are not a natural thing? How did people refer to those kinds of rotational movement before clocks?
September 22, 2025 at 5:50 PM
@hankgreen.bsky.social Which way did people turn things before clocks were invented?
We use the terms clockwise and anti-clockwise now but clocks are not a natural thing? How did people refer to those kinds of rotational movement before clocks?
We use the terms clockwise and anti-clockwise now but clocks are not a natural thing? How did people refer to those kinds of rotational movement before clocks?
Listening to "Ready or Not" by the Fugees today in class. I asked the undergraduates to identify some of the other musical works referenced in the lyrics.
"What is "Porgy and Bess"?, When they say "Buffalo soldier, dreadlocked rasta" what and who are they referencing"
None of them Knew.
"What is "Porgy and Bess"?, When they say "Buffalo soldier, dreadlocked rasta" what and who are they referencing"
None of them Knew.
September 22, 2025 at 5:04 PM
Listening to "Ready or Not" by the Fugees today in class. I asked the undergraduates to identify some of the other musical works referenced in the lyrics.
"What is "Porgy and Bess"?, When they say "Buffalo soldier, dreadlocked rasta" what and who are they referencing"
None of them Knew.
"What is "Porgy and Bess"?, When they say "Buffalo soldier, dreadlocked rasta" what and who are they referencing"
None of them Knew.
Music education could stand to do more thinking and teaching about how music is used for political purposes. Music isn’t always a liberating force. Music is often used to signal membership of an in group. When Trump uses Greenwood they’re both making a musical cultural case about who Americans are.
September 21, 2025 at 11:41 PM
Music education could stand to do more thinking and teaching about how music is used for political purposes. Music isn’t always a liberating force. Music is often used to signal membership of an in group. When Trump uses Greenwood they’re both making a musical cultural case about who Americans are.
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Trump’s allies now control X, Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, & TikTok.
They own Fox News, CBS, WaPo, WSJ & NY Post.
They own Sinclair Broadcasting which has 200 tv stations and local news in 100 markets.
“Freedom of speech” is now what Trump and his billionaire pals say it is.
They own Fox News, CBS, WaPo, WSJ & NY Post.
They own Sinclair Broadcasting which has 200 tv stations and local news in 100 markets.
“Freedom of speech” is now what Trump and his billionaire pals say it is.
September 18, 2025 at 11:31 AM
Trump’s allies now control X, Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, & TikTok.
They own Fox News, CBS, WaPo, WSJ & NY Post.
They own Sinclair Broadcasting which has 200 tv stations and local news in 100 markets.
“Freedom of speech” is now what Trump and his billionaire pals say it is.
They own Fox News, CBS, WaPo, WSJ & NY Post.
They own Sinclair Broadcasting which has 200 tv stations and local news in 100 markets.
“Freedom of speech” is now what Trump and his billionaire pals say it is.
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“People espousing antifascist ideology are enemies of the state but don’t you dare call us fascists or we’ll target you with the full force of the state!”
Yeah, there’s a name for that.
Yeah, there’s a name for that.
September 18, 2025 at 1:07 AM
“People espousing antifascist ideology are enemies of the state but don’t you dare call us fascists or we’ll target you with the full force of the state!”
Yeah, there’s a name for that.
Yeah, there’s a name for that.
We rely on each other broadly for protection of the truth. The concepts and knowledge we use to understand the world come to us mostly through others. We need to be able to generally trust their word to be able to know. We’re all in a big community and we depend on each other.
September 16, 2025 at 2:25 PM
We rely on each other broadly for protection of the truth. The concepts and knowledge we use to understand the world come to us mostly through others. We need to be able to generally trust their word to be able to know. We’re all in a big community and we depend on each other.
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it does seem weird to declare war on people and then demand they mourn your dead
September 14, 2025 at 2:36 PM
it does seem weird to declare war on people and then demand they mourn your dead
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this is, hands down, the best video I've seen on men's influencer content and it's not close either
September 14, 2025 at 1:50 AM
this is, hands down, the best video I've seen on men's influencer content and it's not close either
I’ve just ordered an E-bike in a desperate attempt to reinvent myself moving from wacky shirt guy to E-bike guy.
A truly lateral rebrand.
A truly lateral rebrand.
September 14, 2025 at 2:40 AM
I’ve just ordered an E-bike in a desperate attempt to reinvent myself moving from wacky shirt guy to E-bike guy.
A truly lateral rebrand.
A truly lateral rebrand.
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We’ve been living through 72 nonstop hours of this exact tweet
September 13, 2025 at 9:15 PM
We’ve been living through 72 nonstop hours of this exact tweet
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"Healthy debate" = when I criticize you
"Cancel culture" = when you criticize me
"Cancel culture" = when you criticize me
September 13, 2025 at 1:41 PM
"Healthy debate" = when I criticize you
"Cancel culture" = when you criticize me
"Cancel culture" = when you criticize me
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I am having a hard time reconciling "Charlie Kirk was a fierce advocate of open dialogue and free expression" with "we must identify and persecute everyone who is insufficiently mournful"
After Charlie Kirk's death, teachers and professors nationwide fired or disciplined over social media posts
At least a dozen faculty and staff have faced fallout over insensitive comments online.
www.nbcnews.com
September 13, 2025 at 12:08 PM
I am having a hard time reconciling "Charlie Kirk was a fierce advocate of open dialogue and free expression" with "we must identify and persecute everyone who is insufficiently mournful"
I was talking to some young people recently and I mentioned that when I went to school you could just walk in and there were no cops there and no one worried about being shot to death.
It was so far away from today’s reality that it seemed like I was recounting a dream even to me.
It was so far away from today’s reality that it seemed like I was recounting a dream even to me.
September 13, 2025 at 1:08 AM
I was talking to some young people recently and I mentioned that when I went to school you could just walk in and there were no cops there and no one worried about being shot to death.
It was so far away from today’s reality that it seemed like I was recounting a dream even to me.
It was so far away from today’s reality that it seemed like I was recounting a dream even to me.
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It's always remarkable when we get to see through the pretense to whose lives matter and which ones power mourns, humanizes, and validates in its response to violence, but I'm not sure we've ever seen anything this transparent.
September 11, 2025 at 12:23 PM
It's always remarkable when we get to see through the pretense to whose lives matter and which ones power mourns, humanizes, and validates in its response to violence, but I'm not sure we've ever seen anything this transparent.