Welcome to the APME Liverpool 2025 conference. Here, you’ll be able to register for the conference and update your Sched profile. We encourage you to browse the various presentations and to create a custom schedule. If you have any questions, please visit our conference website or contact us at conference@popularmusiceducation.org We look forward to coming together as a community July 22–24, 2025!
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This research examines STEM skils, craft skills, and aesthetics in the translation of aspiring musikarbeiter (“music workers”) into networks of music technological employment and artistic practice. It discovers common experiences of aesthetic recruitment, technical interessement and acquisition of agency, and frames a suggestion for curriculum intent in terms of “skills/creativity/autonomy”.
This presentation explores the impact of DAWs (digital audio workstations) on contemporary music production, particularly in rap and electro. Through the study of the different types of pedagogies and practices of Ableton Live, it examines its role in creation, shared knowledge (prescribed, acquired, know-how), and its social and technical influence in modern home studios.
This study explores how adolescents in two distinct regions -- rural Ireland and Los Angeles county -- discover the songs that become the soundtracks to their lives. In an age of infinite content and evolving technology, this research creates a window into the musical world of our high school students.
Classical and media composers face contrasting workflows: classical composers create polished scores for musicians, while media composers create realistic audio demos for nonmusicians. This demonstration bridges the gap, teaching composers to balance quality and efficiency by creating realistic mock-ups within notation software using sample libraries, playback engines, and DAWs.
New music technologies have created opportunities to explore science, technology, engineering and math, through the art of music. This demonstration is for teachers, students, and music technologists who are interested in connecting music with STEM. An interactive demonstration of software and hardware tools for educators and students will be provided.
This presentation explores how AI skill sets can be taught and assessed in degree-level popular music education to enhance employability. It examines effective teaching methods, assessment strategies, and real-world applications, ensuring graduates are AI-literate and industry-ready. The session will discuss best practices and future opportunities for text-generative AI in popular music education.
Metadata is the key to connecting artists with their ideal audience and unlocking lucrative sync opportunities. This demonstration will discuss its significance, how it boosts discoverability, and how it can supercharge your music career. Additionally, this session provides educational tips on teaching good metadata habits to young aspiring artists.
This paper considers the implications and impact of social media algorithm biases which – rather than serving to diversify the types of musicians represented in the mainstream – may actually serve to reinforce status quo societal and cultural norms, biases and stereotypes against female musicians, musicians outside the gender binary, fat musicians, musicians of colour, and disabled musicians.
This presentation will nuance the treatment technology's enculturation and audibility in order to suggest a growing area between the audibility of technology and its understanding and perception. This therefore leads to a conflation of technological sonorities and human vocal technique which can have a huge effect on the vocal health of new learners.
The promotion of technology often attempts to associate with prevailing trends: words such as 'crypto', 'metaverse' and 'A.I.' can be used almost to the point of meaninglessness. This paper discusses historical and current examples of algorithmic processing, machine learning and generative A.I. and their changing use in music production and pedagogy.
