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