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2022-01-02
SSHRC IDG awarded 2022: Singing is in a vulnerable state as a result of the pandemic. Given the immense benefits that singing affords children on developmental physical, cognitive, emotional, social, and spiritual levels, a world without singing will also impact the general health and wellbeing...
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09/24/2021
SSHRC IG awarded 2022: Videogames offer tremendous potential for more meaningful interactions with music and sound, but in most cases, the role that sound and music plays is subservient to the story or game world, rather than being a point of exploration in and of itself. What if composers...
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2020-10-01
SSHRC IG awarded 2021: This proposed project is designed to contribute to the field of physical cultural studies (PCS). PCS is characterized as an emerging community of scholars who focus on the relationship between physical culture, power, and the moving/material body. By designing empirical,...
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2018-12-14
SSHRC Awarded PEG 2019: This Partnership Engage grant proposes a gathering where academics and artists come together to heighten dialogue and practice around experiential learning and embodied performance practice. The overall goal is an increased awareness and knowledge mobilization of dance...
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2017-01-25
SSHRC Awarded IDG 2017: The expansion of video games as a medium has precipitated a healthy indie game movement, and created opportunities for media artists to explore interactive art creation. However, audio and music in games is still primarily constrained to sound effects, dialog and emotive...
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2016-02-01
SSHRC Awarded IDG 2016: Music's place in the Catholic Church’s movement from an agent of Portuguese colonization to a site of indigenous resistance in now-independent East Timor is the focus of this project. I will seek out traces of musical sound and embodied performance in archives and...
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2016-02-01
SSHRC Awarded CG 2016: Lead institution is Cape Breton University, in partnership with UAlberta. Public outreach about applied ethnomusicology, positive social interaction, and intercultural exchange. The project includes five core components: (1) two knowledge exchange and dialogue events, one...
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2015-04-13
SSHRC Awarded CG 2015: Exhibiting Sound brings together social sciences and humanities researchers to learn from each other about the ways in which mediated sound can be presented in a social space---real or virtual---for educational or aesthetic experience. Through public engagement with wider...
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2015-10-14
SSHRC Awarded IG 2016: Music scholars have recognized the need for more inclusive histories, however there is no broadly inclusive resource for interdisciplinary study of the multicultural and multifaceted phenomenon of music in Canada. This project will develop the theoretical and methodological...