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Program
- 11:30am - 12:15pm: Max Evans, McGill University: Knowledge sharing among musicians
- 12:15 - 1:00pm: Audrey-Kristel Barbeau, UQAM: Promoting healthy aging with music
- 1:00 - 1:45pm: Philippe-Aubert Gauthier, Université de Sherbrooke: Digital and material sound: Past, present, and future research/creation in virtual acoustics, spatial audio and sound art
Detailed Program
- 11:30am - 12:15pm: Max Evans, McGill University: Knowledge sharing among musicians
Abstract
Abstract
for sound quality and sound comfort studies, or even risk studies. The talk first includes a portfolio-like overview of past and recent research in virtual acoustics, spatial audio and array processing at the Groupe d’Acoustique de l’Université de Sherbrooke within an engineering context. From these projects, an overview of future research program will be discussed. As a second part, examples of my sound and digital artworks that are directly influenced by my research in acoustics and engineering around similar themes will be presented and discussed. Openings in research and creation are finally discussed.
Sharing knowledge is inherently difficult because knowledge is not an object, and cannot be shared in a way that we would share a book or a song. Knowledge is deeply personal and domain specific (i.e., technical), yet socially constructed by our life experiences and through our exposure to the peers around us. To effectively share knowledge, individuals need to overcome dozens of barriers at the individual, organizational, and technological levels. These barriers may be social, cognitive, or emotional in nature. Moreover, knowledge sharing becomes more difficult when the knowledge is more tacit (i.e. implicit, embodied) than explicit (i.e. codifiable).
Musicians pose one of the most interesting sharing paradigms, as the knowledge they possess and transfer (either peer-to-peer or teacher-to-student) is both highly technical and tacit. As an example, orchestral musicians must work together to carefully balance technical knowledge (e.g., articulation, dynamic range, tempo/speed the composer intended) and their own personal expression of the music, without changing the composition. Moreover, the knowledge musicians posses is highly embodied and instrumentalized, in the sense that the instrument becomes an extension of the musicians body. With practice and expertise, musicians become subsidiarily aware of their personal movements; focusing instead on the music, the conductor, and the section leader.
In this talk I will discuss the different forms of knowledge, how they can best be shared, my own research on motivators and inhibitors to knowledge sharing, and the potential of two research projects at CIRMMT. The first is an experimental study further exploring the role of competence- and integrity-based trust on willingness to share and use knowledge among musicians. The second project would explore the universal movements of expert musicians, with the goal of seeing if these ‘universals’ can be transferred to musicians in beginning and intermediate stages of learning.
Biography
Dr. Max Evans is an Assistant Professor in the School of Information Studies at McGill University and the co-founder of the Knowah Research Lab on human knowledge sharing. His research focuses on organizational information and knowledge management, with a specific interest in continuity management, knowledge networks, and interpersonal/organizational trust. Professionally, he has worked in a number of areas including finance, marketing, and strategic management. His clients range from start-up companies to top Fortune 100 organizations. He holds a Bachelors of Science in International Marketing (minor in Philosophy) from Northern Illinois University’s Business School, a Masters of Information Studies (in Information Systems) and a PhD in Information Studies from the Faculty of Information, University of Toronto. He is also a Masters and Doctoral graduate of the Knowledge Media Design Institute (KMDI) at the University of Toronto.
- 12:15 - 1:00pm: Audrey-Kristel Barbeau, UQAM: Promoting healthy aging with music
This presentation will provide an overview of three research projects that I conducted in the last few years that involved older adult beginner musicians. The first project aimed to investigate music performance anxiety and the perceived benefits of music participation among New Horizons Band members. The second project followed a group of eight older adults starting their musical journey within the Montreal New Horizons Band (MNHB) during their first 14 weeks of instruction. Finally, the third project surveyed undergraduate students in music education involved as volunteers in the MNHB to determine the extent to which service-learning may enrich pre-service music teachers’ training. I will explain how these projects helped me understand the relationship between music and health better, while also leading me to develop new questions to explore in my upcoming research initiatives.
Biography
Audrey-Kristel Barbeau is an Assistant Professor of Music Pedagogy at the Université du Québec à Montréal, where she teaches Music Education courses (instrumental conducting and stages) and leads the Jazz Vocal Ensemble. She is the founder and director of the Montréal New Horizons Band (MNHB), the first community band in Québec dedicated to people with no prior music experience. In the last few years, she has contributed to expand the New Horizons program by supporting other community music leaders to form NH bands all across the province, including in the West Island of Montréal, Joliette, and Québec City. She was also the Director of the first Québec New Horizons Band Camp in September 2017, which brought together over 140 musicians from across Canada and the United States. Her current research focuses on the impact of music on health. She is particularly interested in the effects of music-making on aging individuals, the relationship between music and stress, and the benefits of intergenerational activities from the perspective of both older adults and undergraduate music education students.
- 1:00 - 1:45pm: Philippe-Aubert Gauthier, Université de Sherbrooke: Digital and material sound: Past, present, and future research/creation in virtual acoustics, spatial audio and sound art
Abstract
Virtual acoustics is aimed at rendering acoustic models and measurements within an immersive virtual reality context. Accordingly, it represents the materialization of digital sound in space and the spatially-aware digitization of sound: it includes array processing, wave field synthesis, Ambisonics, and so on. Besides audio and music applications, virtual acoustics now find its way into mechanical engineering
for sound quality and sound comfort studies, or even risk studies. The talk first includes a portfolio-like overview of past and recent research in virtual acoustics, spatial audio and array processing at the Groupe d’Acoustique de l’Université de Sherbrooke within an engineering context. From these projects, an overview of future research program will be discussed. As a second part, examples of my sound and digital artworks that are directly influenced by my research in acoustics and engineering around similar themes will be presented and discussed. Openings in research and creation are finally discussed.Biography
Philippe-Aubert Gauthier is a professor at Université de Sherbrooke and a sound artist. He is a member of the Groupe d'Acoustique de l'Université de Sherbrooke. His research focuses on virtual acoustics, sound field reproduction, sound environment reproduction, and sound quality. As an artist, he works with sound and digital forms. The heart of his artist's statement is based on the interactions of arts, cultures, sciences, and technology as a way to address the social constructions of technology and technologically-related culture. As an independent teacher, P.-A. Gauthier teaches 3D technologies, spatial audio, spatial hearing, VR, and digital arts.
Philippe-Aubert Gauthier is a professor at Université de Sherbrooke and a sound artist. He is a member of the Groupe d'Acoustique de l'Université de Sherbrooke. His research focuses on virtual acoustics, sound field reproduction, sound environment reproduction, and sound quality. As an artist, he works with sound and digital forms. The heart of his artist's statement is based on the interactions of arts, cultures, sciences, and technology as a way to address the social constructions of technology and technologically-related culture. As an independent teacher, P.-A. Gauthier teaches 3D technologies, spatial audio, spatial hearing, VR, and digital arts.