{"id":58,"date":"2021-11-22T23:10:37","date_gmt":"2021-11-23T04:10:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mssc\/?page_id=58"},"modified":"2025-05-16T13:49:36","modified_gmt":"2025-05-16T17:49:36","slug":"expanding-the-music-circle-through-networked-improvisation","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mssc\/research\/expanding-the-music-circle-through-networked-improvisation\/","title":{"rendered":"Expanding the Music Circle through Networked Improvisation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Read our article in the International Journal of Music Education,<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1177\/02557614251329445\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1177\/02557614251329445<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Since 2012, through a partnership with the <a href=\"https:\/\/lotuscentre.net\/\">Lotus Centre for Special Music Education<\/a>, musicians from the <a href=\"https:\/\/nac-cna.ca\/en\/orchestra\">National Arts Centre Orchestra<\/a> (NACO) have presented music programming for people with exceptionalities in the <a href=\"https:\/\/nac-cna.ca\/en\/musiccircle\">Music Circle program.<\/a>\u00a0Expanding the Music Circle aimed to bridge both difference and distance through networked improvisation. Networked music is making making music together on-line in real time from separate physical locations. Improvisation is a flexible and creative type of musicking that has the capacity to foster hope and build equitable relationships through co-creative collaboration because of its emphasis on listening, responsiveness and reciprocity. As Tucker et. al state, \u201cto improvise across abilities is to stretch sound, communities, and consciousness\u201d (2016, 198).<\/p>\n<div class=\"content__video\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Expanding the Music Circle, conference presentation at ISME May 31 2022\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/rs4FKxw5m2c?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>Our goal was to expand the Music Circle through the development of a networked musical improvisation pedagogy in collaboration with 6 NACO musicians, 3 special music educators from the Lotus Centre, and 7 adults with exceptionalities, and by extension to demonstrate an innovative model for increasing equity and access to musical participation for everyone.<\/p>\n<p>During summer 2021 we worked with the <a href=\"http:\/\/sonshinefamilies.ca\/\">Sonshine Community Inclusion Centre<\/a>\u00a0to hold a series of improvisation sessions on Zoom with all three groups. Thanks to the generous participation and feedback of the participants, we learned a lot about creating a joyous integrated ensemble!<\/p>\n<p><strong>Outputs<\/strong>: In 2022 we presented at the International Society for Music Education and the Society for Ethnomusicology. We also prepared a report for the NACO with recommendations for expanding the Music Circle program and we co-authored an academic article. In 2023 we presented for the Institute for Music and Health along with participants from Sonshine, and we capped the project off with a musical jam in person at Sonshine Community Inclusion Centre.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Read the Report: <a href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mssc\/wp-content\/uploads\/Report-on-Expanding-the-Music-Circle.pdf\">Expanding the Music Circle (PDF)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<h3><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/playlist?list=PL2ICYRMwHcuSXfsoI9xk7N63IfzNRForS\"><b><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Expanding the Music Circle: Activities for Improvising across Abilities available on MSSC YouTube Channel<\/span><\/b><\/a><\/h3>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Check out our YouTube channel for a series of seven videos showing activities for improvising across abilities. Each video is a compilation of three examples of a single activity from the EMC Project: hello song, goodbye song, singalong, storytelling, freeze game, duets, and improvisation with the AUMI app.\u00a0 Because the videos are from our Zoom sessions, they include some aspects that are integral to networked musicking &#8211; latency and uneven sound quality. We are offering these examples \u201cwarts and all\u201d because we think they show how people of all abilities can connect online through improvisation and make music together!<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h3>Team<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Ellen Waterman (PI)<\/li>\n<li>Erin Parkes (co-applicant)<\/li>\n<li>Jesse Stewart<\/li>\n<li>Genevi\u00e8ve Cimon<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Partners<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/lotuscentre.net\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Lotus Centre for Special Music Education<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/nac-cna.ca\/en\/orchestra\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">National Arts Centre Orchestra<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/sonshinefamilies.ca\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Sonshine Community Inclusion Centre<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Funding by SSHRC Partnership Engage COVID-19 Grant (2020)<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-365\" src=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mssc\/wp-content\/uploads\/sshrc-fip-full-color-eng-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2560\" height=\"308\" srcset=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mssc\/wp-content\/uploads\/sshrc-fip-full-color-eng-scaled.jpg 2560w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mssc\/wp-content\/uploads\/sshrc-fip-full-color-eng-240x29.jpg 240w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mssc\/wp-content\/uploads\/sshrc-fip-full-color-eng-400x48.jpg 400w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mssc\/wp-content\/uploads\/sshrc-fip-full-color-eng-160x19.jpg 160w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mssc\/wp-content\/uploads\/sshrc-fip-full-color-eng-768x93.jpg 768w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mssc\/wp-content\/uploads\/sshrc-fip-full-color-eng-1536x185.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mssc\/wp-content\/uploads\/sshrc-fip-full-color-eng-2048x247.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mssc\/wp-content\/uploads\/sshrc-fip-full-color-eng-360x43.jpg 360w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Read our article in the International Journal of Music Education, https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1177\/02557614251329445 Since 2012, through a partnership with the Lotus Centre for Special Music Education, musicians from the National Arts Centre Orchestra (NACO) have presented music programming for people with exceptionalities in the Music Circle program.\u00a0Expanding the Music Circle aimed to bridge both difference and distance [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"parent":38,"menu_order":3,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_relevanssi_hide_post":"","_relevanssi_hide_content":"","_relevanssi_pin_for_all":"","_relevanssi_pin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_unpin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_include_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_exclude_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_no_append":"","_relevanssi_related_not_related":"","_relevanssi_related_posts":"","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":"","_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.2 - 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