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Using the Concept of Soundscape to Develop the Universal Design in Music
The Unit for Sound Practice Research presents this lunchtime lecture by Tadahiko Imada (Hirosaki University) on "Using the Concept of Soundscape to Develop the Universal Design in Music"
The purpose of this lecture is to develop the universal design in music based on the concept of soundscape in order to bring creativity and collaboration into music classroom. Specific research question was: How can music teachers develop all the children’s creativity at elementary, secondary and special needs schools? In order to answer this question, an action research was undertaken at elementary, secondary and special needs schools in Hirosaki, Aomori, Japan. Though we live in what is called post-modern world, the term universal still matters. Physics, for example, has progressed from one set of “universals” to another-- from Newton to Einstein. However, in the case of cultural products like music, counting commonality does not directly connect a “universal” as post-structuralists argue. Many ethnomusicologist, simultaneously, have gone off in quest of the universals of music. What is more problematic, however, is that they merely pursed universals pre-existing musics and acoustic cultures. In short, they are not interested in creating the brad-new universals of music at all. The concept of design has, however, always been proposed in order to create we have never seen, heard or touched. Based on the concept of soundscape design, the Canadian composer R. Murray Schafer (2005) indicts current music education: that foreign music, music composed by others is valued above our own or anything we could achieve, and music has been isolated from contact with other subjects (science, the other arts and the environment). Many students become discouraged because of meeting excessively high technical demands. His indictment and the concept of universal design by the American architect Ronald Mace can be considered compatible since Mace proposed such principles as equitability, flexibility, simplicity and intuitiveness in use, tolerance for error and low physical effort. Referring to both soundscape and universal designs, this paper attempts to enter that discourse.
Free event, open to all
Dates & times
| Date | Time | Add to calendar |
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| 25 Mar 2019 | 1:00pm - 2:00pm |
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