Chelsea Green is an Associate Professor of Music at the American University in Cairo. She also co-directs the Cairo Guitar Collective (CGC). CGC recently commissioned works for guitar by Egyptian composers and toured the program in Egypt and the USA. California Guitar Archives publishes her transcriptions of French art songs, along with a full-length album The Mélodies of Eric Satie and Reynaldo Hahn. In 2011, Green published a philosophical article entitled Permission to Play: Obstacles and Open Spaces in Music-Making. In 2006, Green co-founded the Los Angeles Electric 8. During her six-year membership, the group recorded three albums and performed regularly. www.chelseacgreen.com.
Chelsea Green
Mammoth Projects: How to Avoid Extinction While Working on Open Resources
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How is a mammoth project different from a big project and why is it useful to make the distinction? These questions arose during development of the in-progress, open resource entitled Sight-Reading for Guitar: The Keep Going Method, being created in collaboration with specialists from AUC's Center for Learning and Teaching and the REBUS Foundation. Now that the team is safely beyond the halfway point, some new insights have emerged. Mammoth projects entail learning and experimenting with technologies, acquiring new skills, imagining how applied technologies may impact learning, directing a team of specialists, cultivating motivation, managing variable timelines, and making difficult decisions resulting from informed debate. Suffice it to say, mammoth projects lumber on, extending the ideal timeframe, draining the team's motivation and threatening the project's extinction. This short talk is aimed at educators and pedagogical specialists who are either involved in or considering taking on a mammoth project. Each of the pitfalls listed above will be explored in hopes of conveying insights meant to propel other mammoth projects toward continued success.
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