BAMM - Building Access in Music Making - exploring the interests and needs of disabled musicians

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/

A discussion with Dr. Jason Nolan who is producer and instigator of the BAMM podcast, Director of the Responsive Ecologies Lab, and Associate Professor in Community Services at the Toronto Metropolitan University.Our wide-ranging discussion begins with how Jason came to music. We travel through his teaching creative arts practice and documenting of practice, the influences of Robert Fripp and Brian Eno on his thinking, the need to decentre teaching from a European model and de-centre music in learningand social environments make space for inclusion.We delve into social knowledge and cultural value disability and music making, and children and their exclusion in music. Jason promotes the need for core competency in music to teach children and describes how we are disabled by the world around us and his desire “to fill in the space in between with a verydiverse notion of music making”.It is about finding your way through, the practise of practise, and basic competency through practice, hence the title of this episode, “Practice, Fail, Repeat”.______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 Andreas Bellucciat theResponsive Ecologies Lab, Toronto Metropolitan Universitywith funds fromGoogle Award for InclusionSocial Sciences and Humanities Research CouncilThe Canadian Foundation for Innovationhttps://accessmusic.ca/