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@xxxxxxxxx<mailto:f.schroeder@xxxxxxxxx>
Partners:
Drake Music NI (www.drakemusicni.com<http://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@xxxxxxxxx<mailto:f.schroeder@xxxxxxxxx>
http://www.sarc.qub.ac.uk/~fschroeder/
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