An Introduction to BAMM - Building Access in Music Making - the Podcast

The BAMM podcast is part of Building Access in Music Making (BAMM), a Canadian-based international research network that brings together practitioners, not-for-profit organizations, and academics to increase and improve access to music making.In these series podcasts, we will meet people who make music and explore what is it that disabled people and people with disabilities need to make their music.We will explore the goals, interests, and needs of disabled musicians, as well as groups and individuals who support disabled musicians making music.We will hear their stories about making music, what making music means to them, and what barriers we have to overcome. We will learn about what existing tools, practices, and expectations disable them, and how they get around, through or over them.In addition to understanding the practices and processes of disabled musicians, we will explore with them how new and emerging, or even dreamed of, tools and technologies, and social understandings can create new spaces, attitudes and practices for making music. From adapted traditional practices instruments to new adaptive software and hardware, and on to Augmented, Virtual and Extended Reality environments, we will forge an ongoing dialogue. That will hopefully initiate transdisciplinary research, improve community interaction and social understanding, and change community and social understanding leading to more inclusive community music for everyone, by ensuring that everyone knows what the barriers are, what the opportunities are, and what might be possible.This podcast is an ongoing adventure.The BAMM Podcast isHosted and edited by Kenneth EmigProduced by Jason Nolan, Kenneth Emig, Richard Marsella, and Andrea Bellucciat theResponsive Ecologies Lab, Toronto Metropolitan Universitywith funds fromGoogle Award for InclusionSocial Sciences and Humanities Research CouncilThe Canadian Foundation for Innovationvisit us @ https://accessmusic.ca/