NICOLAS COFFMAN, PhD
a digital music
educator building
in the canopy.
secondary music teacher (myp·dp), colegio einstein· researcher· isme cma co-chair· bass player
field notes.
I'm a music educator and researcher working at the seam between classroom practice and digital sound. By day I teach secondary music — MYP and IB Diploma — at Colegio Einstein in Quito, Ecuador, after a semester coordinating its arts departments. I also supervise online music-education students at UNIR and serve as commissioner and 2026–28 co-chair of ISME's Community Music Activity commission.
On the build side I make small, opinionated tools: interactive theory lessons with rendered notation and audio, lightweight instruments, classroom dashboards, terminal-flavoured workflows. Touching Sound is my personal research and consulting umbrella; this site is the curator.
Background: PhD in Music Education from the University of Miami (2021). Bass player, soundscape nerd, lifelong terminal user, occasional bioluminescence apologist.
open channels.
- EMAIL nic@nicolascoffman.com
- BLOG blog.nicolascoffman.com
- CODEBERG codeberg.org/nician
- LESSONS online music lessons & mentoring — inquire by email
- CONSULT touchingsound.org