Silent Cacophony is a sounding board for Chase March. Here you will find his podcast, book reviews, skatepark tours, teaching-related articles and resources, and much more. Please use the buttons on the home page to navigate to the topics that interest you.
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Access: Random aka Mega Ran (Live Interview TODAY)
Random will be our special guest for this week’s live and interactive radio show. This program is a partnership between Our Show, Kevin Nottingham, The Word is Bond, DOPEfm, and Silent Cacophony. Conshus runs the segment live on the radio in Florida on 91.5 WPRK and I join him via the magic of Google Hangouts. You can listen to the show online…
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Winter Camping
Winter Camping – Scouter Wally and the Venture Company This is one of my favourite photos of all time and does it ever have a story. My father had been involved in Boy Scouts for most of his life. He was a youth member and a Cub Scout leader before I was even born. When…
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8 Tips for Young Musicians
Here are 8 tips you can use in your music classroom. I hope they will inspire the young musicians in your class. I think using the term “young musician” is very important too. Some students won’t see themselves as musicians whatsoever. They won’t feel comfortable playing an instrument at first. They might stop trying. That’s…
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The Avengers Tripping Through Time
Avengers: Volume 1 by Brian Michael Bendis, John Romita Jr, and Klaus Janson This is a time travel story involving two generations of Earth’s Mightiest Heroes. I was glad that I’d seen this animated film before reading it because it ties in rather nicely. In the movie, the Next Avengers are actually the children of…
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Access: Has-Lo (Live Radio Interview)
Has-Lo will be our special guest for this week’s live and interactive radio show. This program is a partnership between Our Show, Kevin Nottingham, The Word is Bond, and Silent Cacophony. Conshus runs the segment live on the radio in Florida on 91.5 WPRK and I join him via the magic of Google Hangouts. You can…
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Know Your History 42 – Metaphor Concepts
Welcome to Know Your History, your monthly dose of hip-hop knowledge. Today, I want to start out our journey in 1995. That was the year that a member of the Wu-Tang Clan dropped a seminal hip-hop classic. The album is brilliant with banger after banger but there is one track that was so unique that…
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An Unconventional Skateboarder
video platformvideo managementvideo solutionsvideo player This video pretty much blew me away. Guo Miyagi has a very unconventional style when it comes to skateboarding. He celebrates some old school traditions and combines them with parkour techniques and new school tricks. I can’t say enough good things about this. Press play and be amazed.
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Teachers are Magic
“Every day, as a teacher, I am asked to be a magician in a world where magic doesn’t exist” Truer words have never been spoken. What we do is tough. It’s hard to get kids excited about learning in a world where mediocrity is celebrated. It’s not cool to try. You get made fun of if…
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DJ System Misses the Mark
I’ve wanted a computer DJ system for some time now. That’s why it was so nice to get this completely unexpected Christmas present this year. It’s a Numark Mixtrack Pro 2. It looks like it would be a perfect starter unit for any would-be DJs and good enough for what I wanted it to do.…
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Access: Homeboy Sandman (Live Radio TODAY)
Homeboy Sandman will be our special guest for this week’s live and interactive radio show. This program is a partnership between Our Show, Kevin Nottingham, The Word is Bond, and Silent Cacophony. Conshus runs the segment live on the radio in Florida on 91.5 WPRK and I join him via the magic of Google Hangouts. You…