Conservatory Of Music Science And Technology

Established in Nee York and New Jersey.

Music In Everything Corporation (MIE Corp.) pronounced as” ME” is dedicated to integrating formal instrumental music instruction across all academic disciplines: mathematics, science, literary arts, and athletics. They aim to empower 21st-century learners by leveraging these relationships.

Although their focus is on primary education, MIE Corp. extends their innovative methodologies to part-time programs in existing schools, after-school programs, and even full-scale private or charter schools.

REFLECTING ON MY OWN EDUCATION

by Robert Rucker, founder and CEO

I realize that the opportunities I had back then are not available to modern students. This disparity has colored my approach to education to this day. When that first set of drumsticks was placed in my young hands, I knew that was what I wanted to do. As I matured and grew into a musician and teacher, my philosophy has been grounded on providing all students with the opportunities that I credit with giving me the focus and direction that turned my life around – As an adolescent, I was expelled from a traditional public high school and later enrolled in alternative public school where I excelled in the arts, graduated and paved a path to college.

Once I became a teacher, I started to parse out what exactly it was about music that changed my life. I realized that not everyone could be a musician, but every child could benefit from a music education. I began to look at studies that correlated learning music and playing an instrument with increased proficiency in math.

This synergy between my childhood music education and my adult research and teaching experience led to the development of my philosophy and program: Music in Everything.

The name Music in Everything was inspired from the time I spent immersed in the jazz scene in Greenwich Village. One night, listening to a band while waiting for a chance to play, I noticed a sign behind the bandstand, “Music is everything.” It got me thinking that, yes, music is everything. Not just to me, but in the larger scheme of things. I couldn’t get this expression out of my mind. Turning the statement around, I began asking everyone, including fellow educators and musicians, “What is music not?” The conversation always came back to the same thing. Music is a collection of sounds that are organized in a unified way. And sounds are everywhere from the sound of rain to the honking of a car horn. There is nothing that is not music, music is everything.

As I developed my educational philosophy, this idea was never far away. As I read studies on the impacts of music education on other subjects such as math and science, I also realized that music matters with other subjects as well. Putting music IN everything would create a well- rounded, unified educational experience as a pathway to empowerment.