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February: Progress Update

In Reflections on February 1, 2010 at 9:07 am

(In summary? Busy. Next blog.)

January arrived with a bang as I adjusted back to the non-holiday schedules. As you have noticed, I haven’t posted much in that month, and what I did post had more to do with my school assignments than anything interesting to share. I attribute that to the extremely successful SPO concert that ate up a lot of my time (but provided a lot of reading opportunities during rehearsal), the reading heavy courses I am taking (Research methods and a reading course on knowledge organization and classification), and the consultation projects that requires more reading and writing. It honestly doesn’t leave much time to sit and reflect during my day, so the blog has been a little slow. Many exciting things are under way, but I’ll save my time and energy into actually working on them. Instead, here are a few noteworthy events that you might be interested in as well:

My KMDI talk: Music as Embodied Knowledge
February 24th, 4-5pm. Bahen Centre (40 St. George St.) Rm. 7231

In preparation for my talk in Oxford in April, I’ll be giving a version of my talk at the Bahen Centre. This is rather exciting, as I get to test out my ideas to a broad audience, and refine my presentation based on feedback. I hope to draw a at least a few audiences from the Faculty of Music. Click here to read my talk description

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November: Progress Update

In Misc., Reflections on November 1, 2009 at 9:16 am

I can’t believe October is over.

After the family visit last month, and the two out of the three weddings that I managed to attend, as well as fulfilling some design and performance obligations at the Heliconian Club (Mary Gardiner’s tribute concert was a success, and Deanna Hendriks was a wonderful soprano to work with), I am looking forward to a slight change of pace in November, with more focus back to my academic pursuits.

Kicking off the month will be the ASIS&T Conference in Vancouver, and the Community Informations Research Network (CIRN) conference in Prato which I will follow vicariously through twitter and the published proceedings. I really keep meaning to learn more about the CI field, the practitioners, and the ideas being generated there. Instead, I seem to be collecting links and readings for some unknown time in the future to really dig in to see what’s there. I am no activist, but I’m interested in the lessons learned in the ‘peripheral’ communities about ICTs, and what that can teach us about the needs of marginalized communities (however you define that) that are close to home. Based on the low yet consistent level of sleep deprivation over the last few weeks, I imagine I will be sleeping/napping throughout my flight to Vancouver.

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Visualizing Music: project update

In Design, music-esque, My Work on June 12, 2009 at 8:55 am

Our class is officially ending next week, where a ‘near final’ version of our artifact is to be handed in. Lysanne and I have managed to get a lot of the ground work done, and it’s a matter of actually creating the graphical elements of the poster now, and preparing them for review next Thursday.

This has become essentially a framework for a tool where both a general or amateur audience who is interested in music can explore vis-a-vis musicianship categories, and where more advance and self-aware musicians or students can share their knowledge, and learn from each other. We’re basing our model on Andy Arthur’s article entitled in part, “Transdisciplinary concepts and skills in artistic practice” (2006) and Michael Hannan’s article entitled, “Contemporary music student expectations of musicianship training” (2006). So here’s where we’re at.

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