John Churchville, Soundtrap, & Tabla Drums (Part 1 of 2)

Musician, composer, educator, and producer, John Churchville and I discuss his discovery and use of the music recording, production, and collaboration program “Soundtrap” to teach his students how to record, mix, and produce music.

John currently teaches in the Ann Arbor Public Schools. At its heart Soundtrap is effectively a digital audio workstation (a “DAW”, i.e. Pro Tools, CuBase, Reaper, et al) but with enhancements that support collaboration between musicians around the globe.

In the front half of the episode (0:00:00 - 0:31:05) we discuss how John first became aware of Soundtrap, back in 2016 at an IMPACT Conference at the Music Experience Design Lab at New York University. Joh ...