Alex is a passionate educator with a sound background in music and information technology. A registered teacher since 2015, he has experience working within a variety of Queensland schools as a music and computer science teacher as well as within the I.T. industry as a technical support engineer for a global EdTech company.
A classically trained pianist since the age of five, Alex was awarded the AMEB Associate Diploma in Music Australia with distinction (top 5%) in 2006, aged seventeen. In 2015 he graduated from a Bachelor of Education minoring in Music and Information Technology at Griffith University and was twice recipient of the university's Award for Academic Excellence.
Underpinning student learning experiences at Permuted Studios is Alex's three-pillar teaching philosophy: Inspiring Possibilities; Developing Technical Capacities; and Sharing Creations and Interpretations.
Alex looks forward to exploring what's possible with you!
The name "Permuted Studios" is a reflection upon the idea that everything in existance are permutations and subset-permutations of a single source of truth. To illustrate, consider:
00111100 00100001 01000100 01001111 01000011 01010100 01011001 01010000 ...01000101 00100000 01101000 01110100 01101101 01101100 00111110 00111100 01101000 01110100 01101101 01101100 00100000 01101100 01100001 01101110 01100111 00111101 00100010 01100101 01101110 00100010 00111110 00111100 01101000 01100101 01100001 01100100 00111110 00111100 01101101 01100101 01110100 01100001 00100000 01100011 01101000 01100001 01110010 01110011 01100101 01110100 00111101 00100010 01110101 01110100 01100110 00101101 00111000 00100010 00111110 00111100 01110100 01101001 01110100 01101100 01100101 00111110 01001000 01100101 01101100 01101100 01101111 00100000 01010111 01101111 01110010 01101100 01100100 00111100 00101111 01110100 01101001 01110100 01101100 01100101 00111110 00111100 00101111 01101000 01100101 01100001 01100100 00111110 00111100 01100010 01101111 01100100 01111001 00111110 01001000 01100101 01101100 01101100 01101111 00101100 00100000 01010111 01101111 01110010 01101100 01100100 00100001 00111100 00101111 01100010 01101111 01100100 01111001 00111110 00111100 00101111 01101000 01110100 01101101 01101100 00111110
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This line of thinking is of profound significance when considering the true nature of creativity and creative processes. Creativity is a process of discovery, not creation. Nothing is original and every possible expression already exists.
For example, consider a musical composition. A music composition is ultimately a permutation of musical notes. Take the notes C, D, and E, and a period of silence represented by the letter Z. Let's also allocate each a quarter beat (crotchet) in duration. We can then generate the total 65 536 two-bars-of-common-time-melodies that are possible, within which you will find the openings of well known songs including:
E, D, C, D, E, E, E, Z
E, E, D, D, C, Z, Z, Zshow more
C, D, E, C, C, D, E, C
C, C, C, D, E, Z ,D, Z
E, Z, D, Z, C, Z, Z, Zshow less
As a final observation, the Permuted Studios logo incoporates the following three subtractive primary colours:
Note that the colour codes are permutations of 'FF' and '00' / '255' and '0'.
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Permuted studios offers private tuition in areas of IT and Computer Science.
Permuted Studios is located within 750m of Algester State School and St Stephen's Catholic Primary School in Algester. To enquire about tuition availability, please message us.
Permuted Studios provides extracurricular at-school IT and Computer Science programs. These programs are delivered by a registered Queensland teacher and tailor designed to complement and extend upon existing curriculum and work programs.
To discuss this service further, please message us.
Permuted Studios offers private tuition following either the rockschool® syllabus or the AMEB syllabus.
Additionally, Permuted Studios offers tuition to support students studying under the Australian National Curriculum for Music and the QCAA Music Senior Syllabus (including extension Composition, Musicology, and Performance) as is delivered in Queensland schools.
Permuted Studios is located within 750m of Algester State School and St Stephen's Catholic Primary School in Algester. To enquire about tuition availability, please message us.
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