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Interview – Resources provided by Chi Yhun Lo
As part of the podcast series, “ArtsAbly in Conversation,” Diane Kolin interviewed Dr. Chi Yhun Lo, a Senior Research Associate in the SMART Lab at Toronto Metropolitan University, in Canada. Listen to Chi Yhun Lo’s interview This post presents the resources that Chi Yhun Lo mentioned during the conversation. Chi Yhun Lo Chi Yhun Lo, PhD, is a Senior Research Associate who joined the SMART Lab in April 2022. He explores the intersection between music, hearing, deafness, and health. Chi completed a PhD at Macquarie University that explored the benefits of music for deaf and hard-of-hearing children; and his first…
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ArtsAbly at the 2024 Humanities Podcasting Network 4th Annual Symposium
The fourth iteration of the HPN Symposium, on November 8 and 9, 2024, was dedicated to interrogating, engaging with, and pushing the boundaries of the concept of “best practices” and how it relates to humanities podcasting. The initial inquiry was born out of a discussion about the need to counteract worker invisibility and exploitation on university campus podcast teams. But this raised a larger, thornier debate: Are there other agreed-upon principles of podcast-making and audio creation? If so, have they emanated from particular forebears and models, or sprung up out of habitual creation like unwritten, but widely understood, common laws?…
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ArtsAbly interviewed by BEaTS Research Radio’s Podcast
BEaTS Research Radio’s Podcast made a special episode during the last Music and Health Research Institute conference in Ottawa in May 2024. Lucas Marchand interviewed Diane Kolin from ArtsAbly, along with Kayla Carter from Xenia Concerts, Charlotte Gagnon from the Opéra de Montréal, Carol Wiebe from Radical Connections, and music therapist Nicola Oddy. With thanks to Rory McLeod from Xenia Concerts for sharing the link. Listen to the series of interview and discover some of the fantastic projects and speakers we could discover during the conference. Access the interview
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Tuning Your Resilience: Interview with Rebecca Wirth
Behind the scene ArtsAbly was contacted by the saxophonist Alexia McLean, a RAMPD pro member, educator and member of the Committee on Gender Equity mentoring program in the North American Saxophone Alliance. One of her mentees, Rebecca Wirth, a third-year student studying saxophone performance at Furman University, developed a guide titled “Tuning Your Resilience: A Musician’s Disability Guide” for her community project. We contacted Rebecca to have more information. She shared the guide with us and answered a few questions. This page contains the interview, followed by the guide and accompanying resources. Interview with Rebecca Wirth Rebecca Wirth (she/her/hers), Furman…
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Interview – Resources provided by Elizabeth McLain
As part of the podcast series, “ArtsAbly in Conversation,” Diane Kolin interviewed Elizabeth McLain, Assistant Professor of Musicology and Director of Disability Studies at Virginia Tech. Listen to Elizabeth McLain’s interview This post presents the resources that Elizabeth McLain mentioned during the conversation. Elizabeth McLain Elizabeth McLain is Assistant Professor of Musicology and Director of Disability Studies at Virginia Tech. She completed her Ph.D. and M.A. in Musicology at the University of Michigan. A proud Hokie, McLain earned a B.A. in Music and a B.A. in History at Virginia Tech. As a transdisciplinary scholar, McLain has two research areas. Her…
