Dr. Eldad Tsabary
Associate Professor, Concordia University
Canada
Dr. Eldad Tsabary’s main areas of expertise are in the domain of sound studies—specifically (1) sonic aural training and (2) live electroacoustic performance. Through these areas of inquiry, Tsabary has been developing educational approaches, tools, and strategies to better-understand and transform the diverse internal processes involved in sound perception, organization, and creation—both individually and collectively within an ensemble. Through cyclical, ground-up, collaborative research projects, Tsabary has been seeking ways to adapt the educational environment to emerging contexts, goals, and ways of knowing and learning among individuals (of various cultural and neurodiverse backgrounds).
He has been teaching electroacoustic performance, composition, and ear training at Concordia University (Montreal) since 2005, where in collaboration with his students, he created the Concordia Laptop Orchestra (CLOrk, 2010)—one of the largest and most prolific electroacoustic ensembles worldwide. With dozens of performances in prestigious festivals and venues worldwide, CLOrk has served as a fruitful research-creation platform for investigating the nature of collective improvisation, mediation, and creative process; and developing approaches for equitable, collaborative, neurodiverse co-creation.
With students and professors as co-researchers Tsabary has been developing strategies, pedagogies, and technologies for sound-focused ear training that encourage critical self-reflection, provide informative timely feedback, and foster self-motivated growth. Most recently, Tsabary has been leading the creation of Inner Ear—a SSHRC-funded browser-based collection of sonic-aural-training tools designed around principles of transformational education and findings from motivation studies.
As chair of ICOAH for four years, Dr. Tsabary brings a rich experience in administration and leadership. In recent years he co-chaired the Toronto International Electroacoustic Symposium (2016) and the Montreal hub of the International Conference of Music Perception and Cognition (ICMPC-ESCOM 2018), among service in several other conference committees. At Concordia University he is the coordinator of Electroacoustic Studies at the Department of Music, and coordinator (interim) of Interdisciplinary Studies at the Faculty of Fine Arts. He is also currently the president of the Canadian Electroacoustic Community (CEC)—Canada’s national electroacoustic association. Eldad received his doctorate in music education from Boston University.
Find out more about Eldad Tsabary here: https://www.concordia.ca/faculty/eldad-tsabary.html
Duration : 45 Minutes
Date : 15th September 2022
Dr. Shoshannah Bryn Jones Square
Kwantlen Polytechnic University
Canada
Bryn received her PhD in English literature from the University of Oxford (UK) in 2017, after which she worked as a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of English at the University of Manitoba (CA) and received a Research Affiliateship with the UM’s Institute for the Humanities, a body that celebrates and advocates for cross-disciplinary research. She is currently an Instructor in the Faculty of Arts at Kwantlen Polytechnic University (KPU) in British Columbia (CA) and loves sharing ideas and collaborating with students and faculty. She is a member of The Social Justice Centre and of KPU’s Inside-Out Prison Exchange Program and its Arts Antiracism Committee and seeks to connect higher education to social justice and activism. Bryn has had articles published in Essays in Romanticism and Studies in the Literary Imagination, and she is currently co-authoring a chapter with Dr. Carol-Ann Farkas (MCPHS University) for The Routledge Handbook of Health and Media—“Climate Health is Human Health: Working Through Eco-Anxiety with the Written Word in Print and Digital Media”—to be published in 2021, and co-editing, with Dr. Katelyn Dykstra, a collected volume, Intersex and the Health and Medical Humanities, to be published by Bloomsbury Publishing in 2021. Bryn recently presented a paper, “Making Waves: Ripples of Consciousness in Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein,” at “The Science of Consciousness Conference” (virtual). This paper is part of a larger project, “Books, Brains, and Benevolence: An Interdisciplinary Study of Empathy,” which advocates for a radical shift from a self-focused to an other-focused society and for a renewed awareness of how intimately connected we are to one another and to our environment. Indigenous ways of knowing and being are fundamental to this change. Bryn adores teaching and is constantly learning from her brilliant students—they are going to save the world!
Duration :1 hour
Date : 16th September 2022
Jonathan Pitches
Professor
University of Leeds
UK
Jonathan Pitches is Professor of Theatre and Performance and Head of the School of Performance and Cultural Industries at the University of Leeds. He specialises in the study of performer training, environmental performance and blended learning. He is founding co-editor of the journal of Theatre, Dance and Performance Training and has published several books in this area including Vsevolod Meyerhold (2003/18), Science and the Stanislavsky Tradition of Acting (2006/9), Russians in Britain (2012) and Stanislavsky in the World (with Dr Stefan Aquilina 2017). He is sole editor of Great Stage Directors Vol 3: Komisarjevsky, Copeau, Guthrie (2018) and author of Performing Mountains (Palgrave 2020), supported by the AHRC.
