Aprendizagens musicais geradas pelas experiências de criação musical online de beats no projeto #30dias30beats

Abstract

This research, which seeks to understand musical learning processes generated by the experiences of online beat creation during in the context of the #30dias30beats project. The project seeds to stimulate and production envolving electronic resources, with the challenge of production and sharing a 1-minute beat a day, during the 30 days of April. The specifics goals of this research were: to investigate the operation of the project in the creator’s vision; identify the participants project profiles; investigate the participant’ musical creation processes and their learning during the project; to analyze the interaction aspects typical of the participatory digital culture in the musical training of the participants. The Musical Education field has been discussing the practices of musical learning that occur in different contexts, including the online universe of participatory digital culture. In the context of practices that take place online, where music producers, DJs, musicians and people interested in music production interact through the musical creations encouraged by the project, it is possible to identify different musical learning and contribution to the production of music knowledge. The main theoretical contributions of the research articulate the themes of interaction, creation and participatory digital culture in online processes of musical experiences and learning. The research had a qualitative approach, having as data collection techniques: participant observation on the Instagram social media of the #30dias30beats project, semi-structured interviews carried out via Google Meet with participating musicians, DJs, music producers and with the creator of the project. The partial analysis of the data points to: a stimulus to shared musical creation and production; connection and production; connection of people at different artistic and technical levels, gender and age group; exchange of ideas about equipment and tools that help in making music. In addition, the learning experiences show their own musical making in the creative and participatory digital culture. Investigating practices in the online context allows giving visibility to practices that can become closer to the teaching of musical carried out in these spaces.