Paper presented at York University, Toronto, on April 21st, 2022, during the MUSI 6010 PhD Colloquium. Extract: How do musicians with differently developed bodies make music? Like all musicians, they need a team of supporters. Their teams, however, also include instrument inventors and builders. In this paper, I explore the experience of three professional musicians who I have interviewed about their musical journeys, born without arms, with a different shape of body, or with a progressing disability.
Category: Music and Disability
Vibrations, deafness and music: from Ludwig van Beethoven to Evelyn Glennie
Paper presented at York University, Toronto, on January 14th, 2022, and during the Carleton University Music and Culture Graduate Student Society 2022 Symposium, Ottawa, on March 26th, 2022. Abstract: How does someone deaf hear music? Is there another approach to sound when the ears are not working? In this paper, based on the assumption that deafness is incompatible with sound, thus with music, I explore the interconnections between hearing impairments and music-making, form the nineteenth century to today.
Music as a Tool for Disability Activism
Article published in “Music & Politics in the Moment” – Issue No. 1, December 2021. In this article, I explain how Critical Disability Studies has changed the vision of disability thanks to artistic initiatives, and how different models of disability differ in relation to arts and culture.
Strength for the journey: Music-making and Critical Disability Studies
Paper presented during the Carleton University Music and Culture Graduate Student Society 2021 Symposium on March 20th, 2021, the 2021 Midwest Graduate Music Consortium on April 11th, 2021, and the…
How professional musicians pursue their activities during the pandemic
Paper presented during the symposium “Music, Mediation, and Disability: Representation and Access” on November 21st, 2020. Abstract: This comparative study is part of a larger research project examining the life…