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Project Summary:

Designing Sound Futures is an interdisciplinary research cluster that seeks to explore sound, inclusive learning, engineering, critical disability studies, and the arts through theoretical and material engagements with modular musical synthesis. Members of the research cluster are drawn from the Faculty of Education, the School of Arts, Media, Performance and Design, and the departments of Humanities, Electrical Engineering/Computer Science and Communications.

Project Description:

Designing Sound Futures will bring York cluster scholars and RAs, artists, electronics engineers, instrument designers, and the disability community into contact with one another through cluster events, materials-centric workshops, and hackathons/buildathons.

In collectively co-exploring the phenomenon of modular synthesis, our research objectives are centred on:

1) Exploring cutting-edge materials and interface design, linking innovations in technology and engineering with social innovation in education and the arts;
2) Developing adapted and new instrument designs and interfaces informed by critical disability studies thinking;
3) Enriching public and industry discourses and practices surrounding technology, learning, and creativity informed by principles of equity, diversity, and inclusion as outlined in critical race theory;
4) Developing wide ranging music, creative arts, and STEAM curricula that challenge inequitable and ableist structures in music education.

Project Type:
Funded

Project Role:
Co-Principal Investigator

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Collaborator:
Kurt Thumlert

Collaborator Institution:
Faculty of Education

Collaborator Role:
Principle Investigator