Music Research-Creation: Speculative propositions and transdisciplinary failures with Dr. David Ben Shannon

Please join us for the hybrid public talk, “Music Research-Creation: Speculative propositions and transdisciplinary failures” with Dr. David Ben Shannon (external link, opens in new window)  on April 9th from 6:30-8:00 pm EDT. Dr. Shannon will speak to the methodological potentials and challenges of music composition as a research-creation practice. Research-creation is the feminist curation of practices from across the bounds of multiple disciplines. In his research, Dr. Shannon mobilizes this curation across music composition, empirical social science methods, early years classroom practice, and electrodermal biosensors. Dr. Shannon will discuss the possibilities of conducting transdisciplinary research like this in early childhood settings, but also discuss the various challenges that it presents.

Paolo Griffin and Kayla Carter from Xenia Concerts will be community respondents. Xenia Concerts (external link, opens in new window)  works with neurodiverse and disabled communities to design, produce, and present exceptional performing arts experiences for children, their families, and others within those communities who face systemic and social barriers to inclusion.

Free and open to the public. Live captioning, virtual ASL interpretation, and attendant care will be provided. 

Tuesday, April 9th, 2024

6:30 - 8:00 pm EDT

In Person:

Room SHE-686
Sally Horsfall Eaton Building, 6th floor
99 Gerrard St. E.
Toronto Metropolitan University

Zoom:

https://torontomu.zoom.us/j/92735325223 (external link, opens in new window) 

For questions and access inquiries please contact: avital.cherniawsky@torontomu.ca

Hosted by the Disability Publics Lab, School of Disability Studies

David Ben Shannon (he/him)

David Ben Shannon is an inter-disciplinary scholar, whose research intersects with critical disability studies, early childhood education, cultural studies, and art. He is a Lecturer (Assistant Professor) in the School of Education, Manchester Metropolitan University, UK. With a background in primary special education, his research interests include neurodiversity, early language, place, and affect. Methodologically, he experiments with sensory ethnography, sound, and research-creation. Dr Shannon is a sound artist and composer, and one-half of glitch-folk, electronica duo Oblique Curiosities.

DavidBenShannon.co.uk (external link, opens in new window)  | ObliqueCuriosities.com (external link, opens in new window) 

Paolo Griffin (he/him)

Paolo Griffin is a composer and curator based in Toronto/Tkarón:to whose music has been described as placing “... the listener in a kind of sonic microgravity” (PANM360) and as “...uncompromising and thoroughly engrossing.” (LvT). Paolo’s work involves ongoing research about the sounding and perception of microtonal rational intonation (Just Intonation) combined with a rigorous, process-based approach to sonic form and structure. The work he creates explores the creation of colour/shading/densities in sound, and forms
of action/interactions between processes and systemic organizations. His practice spans sound, performance, text, and improvisation and includes the creation of notated music and text/event scores.

Kayla Carter (she/they)

Kayla Carter (she/they) is a self-described deliberately Black Tkaronto-based educator, multidisciplinary artist, and speaker. Kayla’s work focuses on disability justice, grief, anti-racism, inclusive design, intersectionality, gender, and class. Kayla’s work is rooted in unpacking and analyzing these institutional, cultural, physical, and social structures, and the subsequent material effects on our lives. Known for her passionate, thorough and empathetic delivery, Kayla has facilitated workshops, moderated and been on panels for the University of Toronto, Humber College, Media Girlfriends, Canadian Women's Foundation, Students for Barrier Free Access, The Social Work Faculty at the Toronto  Metropolitan University and has been on Cityline.