ATMI serves as a forum for the scholarly presentation of technical information by and for specialists in the field of computer-assisted instruction (CAI) in music. In addition, another of ATMI's goals is to deliver such information to an audience of non-specialists who are users of music CAI. Thus, ATMI cultivates the development of music CAI and disseminates information about the evolution and application of technology in music instruction.
ATMI was formed in 1975 and has been an independent professional organisation since 1992. Its members are mostly from the United States; CTI Music is amongst the small number of members from other countries.
Its most public activities are :
Section I contains information on a variety of resources under the following headings:
audio-visual, books, bulletin boards, CAI, catalogues, composition, conferences, database, synthesiser editors and editor-librarians, hardware, instruction, keyboards, marching band, miscellaneous, multimedia, music, networks, notation, organisations, programming, recording, samples, sequencers, serials, sounds, synthesisers, testing, utilities, and discontinued products since the previous edition.
Section II includes a list of acronyms and a list of email and Web addresses for ATMI members.
Section III is a list of publishers' addresses.
Section IV comprises the many indexes.
I recommend the Technology Directory to anyone who is investigating the possibility of using computers in their music or musicology teaching. Even allowing for the frustrations associated with long lists of software which is apparently only known or available in the USA, this is a comprehensive catalogue of just how much software is available and what it aims to achieve. There are, for example, 50 programs listed for aural training and dictation, compared with 24 for music history.
Lisa Whistlecroft
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