Elissa Milne
@elissamilne.bsky.social
Composer, pianist, music educator
Little Peppers • Pepperbox Jazz [Faber Music] • P Plate Piano [AMEB]
"Getting to..." series [Hal Leonard Australia]
Chord Challenge • 30/40 Piece Challenge
some collected writings: elissamilne.com
Little Peppers • Pepperbox Jazz [Faber Music] • P Plate Piano [AMEB]
"Getting to..." series [Hal Leonard Australia]
Chord Challenge • 30/40 Piece Challenge
some collected writings: elissamilne.com
Yes!!!
Not every passion must be mined for teachable moments. Gem Clutton explains that for children with monotropic attention profiles, which are widely understood within autistic communities as a core feature of autistic cognition, this approach can easily go astray. loom.ly/8TEBOJM
When joyful autonomy matters so much more than curriculum outcomes
There is a particular kind of attention some children bring to the things they love. What is monotropism? How should we respond?
loom.ly
June 23, 2025 at 4:17 PM
Yes!!!
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In advance of tomorrow's release of 'The Seal Woman', I wrote a piece for Classical Music on the dilemma faced by Marjorie Kennedy-Fraser and colleagues in the early 20thC about how far attempting to preserve folk music using classical stave format inevitably also corrupted and compromised it.
Appropriation versus preservation: The dilemma of folk-opera
Ahead of the release of his new recording of ‘The Seal Woman’ with the Orchestra of Scottish Opera, conductor John Andrews explores how composer Marjory Kennedy Fraser walks the line between appropria...
www.classical-music.uk
June 19, 2025 at 2:55 PM
In advance of tomorrow's release of 'The Seal Woman', I wrote a piece for Classical Music on the dilemma faced by Marjorie Kennedy-Fraser and colleagues in the early 20thC about how far attempting to preserve folk music using classical stave format inevitably also corrupted and compromised it.
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Music Education in Latin America 🌎
Perspectives & Challenges for the 21st Century (2nd Session)
🗓 June 26, 2025
🕥 11:30 AM Chilean Time | 15:30 UTC
💻 Free session – in English
Let’s explore the future of music education across Latin America
🔗 Register now: us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
Perspectives & Challenges for the 21st Century (2nd Session)
🗓 June 26, 2025
🕥 11:30 AM Chilean Time | 15:30 UTC
💻 Free session – in English
Let’s explore the future of music education across Latin America
🔗 Register now: us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
June 19, 2025 at 3:16 PM
Music Education in Latin America 🌎
Perspectives & Challenges for the 21st Century (2nd Session)
🗓 June 26, 2025
🕥 11:30 AM Chilean Time | 15:30 UTC
💻 Free session – in English
Let’s explore the future of music education across Latin America
🔗 Register now: us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
Perspectives & Challenges for the 21st Century (2nd Session)
🗓 June 26, 2025
🕥 11:30 AM Chilean Time | 15:30 UTC
💻 Free session – in English
Let’s explore the future of music education across Latin America
🔗 Register now: us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
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People spend a lot of time wondering why the left is worse at using independent media to control the national narrative.
A useful exercise is to ask why the left is also worse at selling snake oil and pyramid schemes, because I think the reasons are basically exactly the same.
A useful exercise is to ask why the left is also worse at selling snake oil and pyramid schemes, because I think the reasons are basically exactly the same.
April 21, 2025 at 1:31 AM
People spend a lot of time wondering why the left is worse at using independent media to control the national narrative.
A useful exercise is to ask why the left is also worse at selling snake oil and pyramid schemes, because I think the reasons are basically exactly the same.
A useful exercise is to ask why the left is also worse at selling snake oil and pyramid schemes, because I think the reasons are basically exactly the same.
Question for my music education peeps:
Do you see memory in music as being the opposite of reading? Or something else?
Do you see memory in music as being the opposite of reading? Or something else?
April 19, 2025 at 5:39 AM
Question for my music education peeps:
Do you see memory in music as being the opposite of reading? Or something else?
Do you see memory in music as being the opposite of reading? Or something else?
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“One of the Institute of Public Affair’s greatest successes has been to stitch climate denialism into the very fabric of the conservative political identity.”
www.crikey.com.au/2019/01/29/i...
www.crikey.com.au/2019/01/29/i...
How one think tank poisoned Australia's climate debate
One of the Institute of Public Affair's greatest successes has been to stitch climate denialism into the very fabric of the conservative political identity.
www.crikey.com.au
April 2, 2025 at 11:15 AM
“One of the Institute of Public Affair’s greatest successes has been to stitch climate denialism into the very fabric of the conservative political identity.”
www.crikey.com.au/2019/01/29/i...
www.crikey.com.au/2019/01/29/i...
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I don’t think the public realises the extent to which Australia is the last bulwark for the climate denialists and how much the industry who funds them are prepared to stake on Dutton. This election isn’t just about Australia. It’s a bellwether for the existential global brawl on carbon emissions.
April 2, 2025 at 7:51 AM
I don’t think the public realises the extent to which Australia is the last bulwark for the climate denialists and how much the industry who funds them are prepared to stake on Dutton. This election isn’t just about Australia. It’s a bellwether for the existential global brawl on carbon emissions.
Music Education People!
Do you think of music notation as a representation of sound? As instructions for performance? As a memory aid? As a record of composerly intent? A script for interpretation? A colonial artifact? A map for listening? Something else? All of these?
Do you think of music notation as a representation of sound? As instructions for performance? As a memory aid? As a record of composerly intent? A script for interpretation? A colonial artifact? A map for listening? Something else? All of these?
March 31, 2025 at 12:52 PM
Music Education People!
Do you think of music notation as a representation of sound? As instructions for performance? As a memory aid? As a record of composerly intent? A script for interpretation? A colonial artifact? A map for listening? Something else? All of these?
Do you think of music notation as a representation of sound? As instructions for performance? As a memory aid? As a record of composerly intent? A script for interpretation? A colonial artifact? A map for listening? Something else? All of these?
This is how you do it!
203 of you braved the rain and showed up at EIGHT different sign lines this morning!
If that isn’t dedication, I don’t know what is.
We also doorknocked this weekend - in Northbridge, Killara and Roseville.
33 days to go - let’s do this Bradfield.
If that isn’t dedication, I don’t know what is.
We also doorknocked this weekend - in Northbridge, Killara and Roseville.
33 days to go - let’s do this Bradfield.
March 31, 2025 at 8:04 AM
This is how you do it!
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The Australian campaign against subminimum wage just added the current federal candidates to our letter. See if your candidates support disabled wage equality, or the status quo of $3/hr.
docs.google.com/document/d/1...
docs.google.com/document/d/1...
February 1, 2025 at 11:59 AM
The Australian campaign against subminimum wage just added the current federal candidates to our letter. See if your candidates support disabled wage equality, or the status quo of $3/hr.
docs.google.com/document/d/1...
docs.google.com/document/d/1...
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In searching Bluesky for news about independent candidate in the upcoming Australian federal election, Nicolette Boele (Bradfield), I did not expect to learn this:
God, I love my students. We had a conversation that led us to the word "bully." He asked where that word came from. I wasn't entirely sure so we looked together. It comes from the Dutch verb "boele" meaning "lover." We learned together that bully had come from courtship / the wooing of a woman.
February 9, 2025 at 1:40 AM
In searching Bluesky for news about independent candidate in the upcoming Australian federal election, Nicolette Boele (Bradfield), I did not expect to learn this:
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The part of George Orwell’s 1984 that everyone forgets is how the music and publishing industries have been replaced by a machine that spits out songs and bad novels “without any human intervention.” The goal is to keep you from ever having to think.
February 8, 2025 at 8:06 PM
The part of George Orwell’s 1984 that everyone forgets is how the music and publishing industries have been replaced by a machine that spits out songs and bad novels “without any human intervention.” The goal is to keep you from ever having to think.
“This obscures more than it reveals” is perfect discourse for one’s seven-year-old offspring ❤️
February 3, 2025 at 1:42 PM
“This obscures more than it reveals” is perfect discourse for one’s seven-year-old offspring ❤️
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If a plea for kindness and empathy makes you furious, you might be a sociopath.
January 22, 2025 at 3:21 PM
If a plea for kindness and empathy makes you furious, you might be a sociopath.
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watching elon get into social media has been like seeing your carpenter buddy hurt his back and get prescribed oxycontin, but for becoming a nazi
January 21, 2025 at 4:13 AM
watching elon get into social media has been like seeing your carpenter buddy hurt his back and get prescribed oxycontin, but for becoming a nazi
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January 20, 2025 at 11:57 PM
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Can’t be repeated often enough
‘The UK’s creative industries are vital to the economy. Valued at £124bn, they are worth more than the life sciences, aerospace and automotive industries combined. Arts and culture alone contribute an impressive £34.6bn.’
on.ft.com/42hzVmL
‘The UK’s creative industries are vital to the economy. Valued at £124bn, they are worth more than the life sciences, aerospace and automotive industries combined. Arts and culture alone contribute an impressive £34.6bn.’
on.ft.com/42hzVmL
The UK should take a leaf from France’s book to boost arts funding
Tax breaks for corporate sponsors can benefit the creative sector at a time of dwindling public funds
on.ft.com
January 20, 2025 at 8:31 AM
Can’t be repeated often enough
‘The UK’s creative industries are vital to the economy. Valued at £124bn, they are worth more than the life sciences, aerospace and automotive industries combined. Arts and culture alone contribute an impressive £34.6bn.’
on.ft.com/42hzVmL
‘The UK’s creative industries are vital to the economy. Valued at £124bn, they are worth more than the life sciences, aerospace and automotive industries combined. Arts and culture alone contribute an impressive £34.6bn.’
on.ft.com/42hzVmL
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I have taken
the resources
that were in
the budget
and which
you were probably
saving
for higher education
Forgive me
they were needed
to feed the AI bubble
and to dismantle the humanities
the resources
that were in
the budget
and which
you were probably
saving
for higher education
Forgive me
they were needed
to feed the AI bubble
and to dismantle the humanities
January 16, 2025 at 12:16 PM
I have taken
the resources
that were in
the budget
and which
you were probably
saving
for higher education
Forgive me
they were needed
to feed the AI bubble
and to dismantle the humanities
the resources
that were in
the budget
and which
you were probably
saving
for higher education
Forgive me
they were needed
to feed the AI bubble
and to dismantle the humanities
Going back to the site formerly known as Twitter to reference a great conversation I had a few years ago there, to discover enough people have nuked their accounts that not only the great conversation no longer exists, but nearly all the great conversations are also gone.
January 15, 2025 at 10:38 PM
Going back to the site formerly known as Twitter to reference a great conversation I had a few years ago there, to discover enough people have nuked their accounts that not only the great conversation no longer exists, but nearly all the great conversations are also gone.
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just blurted out in class "yes, you have to cite where you got your info. in a world in which lying loudly is the only thing that seems to get rewarded, citing your sources is an act of resistance" and folks, I really believe that.
December 19, 2024 at 3:35 PM
just blurted out in class "yes, you have to cite where you got your info. in a world in which lying loudly is the only thing that seems to get rewarded, citing your sources is an act of resistance" and folks, I really believe that.
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I also wish I could use these genius articulations from @pwallinga.bsky.social.
December 20, 2024 at 3:19 PM
I also wish I could use these genius articulations from @pwallinga.bsky.social.
Most people think of piano practice as a kind of discipline or drudgery.
Best practice, however, is a different kind of practice altogether: exploration, hypothesis, discovery, nuance.
And more than that! It's sensory awareness, story-telling, the bending of time and the crafting of consciousness.
Best practice, however, is a different kind of practice altogether: exploration, hypothesis, discovery, nuance.
And more than that! It's sensory awareness, story-telling, the bending of time and the crafting of consciousness.
December 20, 2024 at 12:05 PM
Most people think of piano practice as a kind of discipline or drudgery.
Best practice, however, is a different kind of practice altogether: exploration, hypothesis, discovery, nuance.
And more than that! It's sensory awareness, story-telling, the bending of time and the crafting of consciousness.
Best practice, however, is a different kind of practice altogether: exploration, hypothesis, discovery, nuance.
And more than that! It's sensory awareness, story-telling, the bending of time and the crafting of consciousness.
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Saw someone upbraiding someone else for having a hobby while the world is on fire, and, my friends:
1. The world is ever on fire, this is today's conflagration;
2. If you don't find time for rest and joy the fire will consume you;
3. Don't let people shame you for being an entire human.
1. The world is ever on fire, this is today's conflagration;
2. If you don't find time for rest and joy the fire will consume you;
3. Don't let people shame you for being an entire human.
December 17, 2024 at 3:21 PM
Saw someone upbraiding someone else for having a hobby while the world is on fire, and, my friends:
1. The world is ever on fire, this is today's conflagration;
2. If you don't find time for rest and joy the fire will consume you;
3. Don't let people shame you for being an entire human.
1. The world is ever on fire, this is today's conflagration;
2. If you don't find time for rest and joy the fire will consume you;
3. Don't let people shame you for being an entire human.