Stacy Nick

“Schools teach students how to perform music and music history, but they don’t give students the opportunity to create music of their own” said Cory Cullinan, aka Doctor Noize. “Every other subject allows you to practice creating, there English lit classes and then there’s creative writing, there’s art history classes and then art classes, where you get to actually make things” said Cullinan, a former high school teacher. But when you get to music, there’s chorus and band. That’s it. I want kids to start thinking, “I could write a song?” So rather than just quietly listening to Cullinan perform his various instruments including keyboards, saxophone and, of course, a kazoo kids will also get to help arrange and record a song. “(The kids are) sort of shocked when they are able to just get up and do it”, he said. “They think there’s this wall between them and music. I don’t think we encourage kids enough to be creative musically. Kids just like to be part of the creative process.”