DEADLINE COMING UP VERY SOON - 19 JUNE:
A new PhD studentship opportunity, funded by National Productivity
Investment Fund (NPIF), at the Sonic Arts Research Centre (SARC),
Queen's University Belfast.
Details of the scheme are provided at the Northern Bridge website
http://www.northernbridge.ac.uk/studentships/npif/
Title:
Designing inclusive music technologies: Transforming lives of disabled
musicians through music improvisation and digital technologies
Main academic supervisors:
Dr Franziska Schroeder and Dr Miguel Ortiz, Sonic Arts Research Centre
(SARC), Queen's University Belfast
Belfast BT7 1NN f.schroeder@qub.ac.uk
Partners:
Drake Music NI (www.drakemusicni.com); Farset Labs Belfast
(www.farsetlabs.org.uk); and the Ulster Orchestra
(www.ulsterorchestra.org.uk).
Summary:
This project will examine practices of inclusive music making and
accessible design with digital musical instruments, used by disabled
musicians. The aim is to undertake an interdisciplinary exploration
combining music improvisation, and digital design of inclusive musical
interfaces. The studentship allows for a music/interface design
researcher to work in the areas between music improvisation, critical
disability studies and digital design to highlight and implement
innovative modes of inclusive musical interactions for disabled
musicians. The research is industry facing as the researcher works
between Queen's University (Sonic Arts Research Centre), Drake Music
NI (a charity working with disabled musicians), the Ulster Orchestra
(to test and implement designs, with view to creating a unique
inclusive music orchestra in Northern Ireland that includes abled and
disabled musicians), and digital design company Farset Labs Belfast
(to develop and make inclusive musical instruments tailored to the
needs of disabled musicians).
The researcher might investigate how music technology might be seen as
a barrier or as a facilitator; to what extent the design of music
technologies might enhance and facilitate participation in music
making; the question of music improvisation and inclusivity; how
improvisatory strategies might support inclusive music making in the
context of working with digital musical instruments; how we challenge
traditional musical ontology. And finally, the researcher might look
into a wider understanding of disability, and address the extent to
which inclusive approaches to music making can empower disabled
people, and thereby challenge exclusionary practices and the
marginalisation of disabled people in music making.
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dr f r a n z i s k a s c h r o e d e r
School of Arts, English and Languages, Queen's University Belfast
Head of Performance (Music), Senior Lecturer and
School's Impact and Public Engagement Champion
Tel. 028 9097 1024
Email: f.schroeder@qub.ac.uk
http://www.sarc.qub.ac.uk/~fschroeder/
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