Where the music is
by Meaghan Whelan
The Gazette, Memorial University, vol. 43 no. 5
http://www.ca/gazette/issues/vol43no5/music.php
Sound-Initiated Drawing and Memory Impairment
by Brenda Hutchinson
CEC Canadian Electroacoustic Community
http://cec.sonus.ca/econtact/12_4/hutchinson_memory
A Musical Improvisation Interface for People with Severe Physical Disabilities
An article written by the AUMI team for the Music and Medicine Journal
Music and Medicine July 2011 vol.3 no.3 172-181
http://mmd.sagepub.com/content/3/3/172.short
Musical Prothesis
An interview with Ellen Waterman by Elling Lien. Comic by Jose Gonzalez
http://thescope.ca/music-prosthesis-the-aumi-project
Tapping My Left Foot
by Frances Marion Platt
Deep Listening Institute in Kingston demos adaptive music-making software for the mobility-impaired.
http://bit.ly/dRv4FS
Music at Work
by Mary Martialay
The approach: discover, innovation and imagination at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
http://blogger.rpi.edu/approach/2011/03/25/music-at-work
Improvisation Across Abilities: Adaptive use Project by Composer Pauline Oliveros and Collaborators Enables People with Disabilities to Play Music
Cathryn Hrudicka
http://creativesage.posterous.com/improvisation-across-abilities-adaptive-use-p
Improvising Bodies, Sites of Resistance: Adaptive Use Musical Instruments for the Physically Challenged
"Dr. Ellen Waterman, MMaP Music, Media and Culture lecture series"
http://www.acinl.ca/events/843
ThisAbility 2010 – Busan
Ten Thousand Hours Installment 5: Pauline Oliveros (Podcast)
Oliveros “discusses her innovations in the field of music technology, from her involvement in the San Francisco Tape Music Center to her current work with iPhones as instruments and the development of Adaptive Use Software, which enables physically challenged individuals to make improvisational music.”
http://tenthousandhourspodcast.com/2010/05/21/ten-thousand-hours-installment-5-pauline-oliveros/
Going Solo
“‘Making music is a way for these children to be creative,’ says Waterman. ‘And for the first time in their lives, children who can’t speak or can barely move are making their own choices, enabled by this technology.’”
Research Magazine, Winter 2010, p. 22
Duo 2: The Improvisation Community and Social Practice Research Project: Some Thoughts on Outreach, Partnership, and Policy
In February 2010, at the New Music Networking Forum in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Ellen Waterman and Ajay Heble discuss outreach programs connected to the Improv Community and Social Practice project, of which AUMIPC is one. Here is the text of that presentation.
“One of our researchers, Pauline Oliveros, has further developed the connection between improvisation and diversity through her ground breaking work on adaptive use musical instruments for the physically challenged: a computer/camera tracking technology for musicking that extends the possibilities of creative improvisation among and across people with a wider range of bodies, mobilities, and sensory experience.”
Music Therapy Benefits Severely Disabled Students
“Geoffrey, who has been working with the staff at REHAB since he was a little older than 2 years old, is also visually impaired. For his mother, Tarez Eisen, watching her son learn how to “play” an instrument was something she never expected to see.
‘The first time I saw him do this, it just blew me away,’ says Eisen. ‘Anything independent that you can do, especially music, is just wonderful.’”
http://www.therapytimes.com/content=0402J84C489E8C8640A040441
Complemento a los tratamientos tradicionales:
Más estudios confirman que la música ayuda a la rehabilitación
Hugo Avilés tiene una lesión que le impide moverse. Una cámara capta los movimientos de su cabeza, con lo que hace sonar una canción en el PC, mientras trabaja sus músculos.
http://www.mer.cl/modulos/catalogo/Paginas/2009/06/29/MERSTCT012AA2906.h...
The Adaptive Use Instruments Project
In this interview, composer Pauline Oliveros and project technical lead Zevin Polzin explain their work with severely disabled children. Using specially-designed musical instruments controlled by video tracking, the project has allowed kids to experience making music for the first time.
http://cycling74.com/2007/12/07/the-adaptive-use-instruments-project/
Severely-disabled Students Making Music with Specialized Programs
POUGHKEEPSIE, N.Y. - Using subtle motions of her head and a newly developed computer program, 16-year-old Annemarie grinned with the realization that she was making music. The teenager is a student at the REHAB school in Poughkeepsie. Severely physically disabled, Annemarie can't walk or speak and has little control over the movements of her head and arms.
examiner.com
A Magical Keyboard
Linda Stern, Newsweek
Oct. 15, 2007 issue - A college student's experimental keyboard may help unlock the musical ability trapped inside individuals lacking the physical mobility to play traditional instruments.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21131753/site/newsweek/
Nose Can Play Music on New Instrument
Tracy Staedter, Discovery News
May 29, 2007 — A computerized instrument that allows people to play music with the tip of their nose could give those who suffer from physical disabilities, such as cerebral palsy, the chance to experience music's positive effects.
http://dsc.discovery.com/news/2007/05/29/nosemusic_tec.html?category=tec...
Adaptive Use Musical Instruments for the Physically Challenged
Elizabeth Groeneveld
http://deeplistening.org/site/content/aumipcelizabethgroeneveld
