The first month of the academic year was a whirlwind, and it wasn’t until I started getting some sense of closure of previous reading courses, funding applications, and meeting random conference deadlines that I was beginning to feel like I was making progress. The amazing SPO concert featuring the Toy Piano Composers was also a high, I think I’ll buy a few CDs in support of them and send it around to friends who couldn’t make it. Most things are now well under way. Having interdisciplinary interest is both a blessing and a curse, but the key is knowing how everything relates in order to hit two birds with one stone. Below are some areas that I will be exploring vis-à-vis my thesis entitled “Online Music Knowledge: The Case of the Non-Musician” (which, by the way, I will be recruiting subjects for soon, just waiting on ethics approval!).

A few conferences coming up in Toronto that I’ll be participating in includes the BooksOnline’10 Workshop at the CIKM (Conference for Information and Knowledge Management) in October, and a collaborative submission with Kiku Day at the DIY Citizenship Conference. I’m especially looking forward to what Kiku and I might come up with as part of the hack space exhibition, as we co-present our prespectives on the transmission of shakuhachi performance utilizing skype as a communication tool. Way more fun than writing a paper. Not that there’s a lack of papers in my life.