[Menvi-discuss] Fwd: From David Baker re. "Visually-impaired musicians' lives" project

[Brandon Keith Biggs]

Hello,
For musicians who are over 18, I got this email from one of my music lists.
Thanks,


Brandon Keith Biggs



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Subject: 	From David Baker re. "Visually-impaired musicians' lives" project
Date: 	Mon, 2 Jun 2014 13:46:25 +0100
From: 	David Baker <David.Baker at ioe.ac.uk>
To: 	David Baker <David.Baker at ioe.ac.uk>



Dear Fellow Musician,

Could you please help me with something? I am currently leading a 
research project called “Visually-impaired musicians’ lives” (VIML), 
which is an investigation into the musical practices, participation and 
learning experiences of blind and partially-sighted people. It is a 
research project based at the Institute of Education, University of 
London, UK in partnership with the Music Advisory Service of the Royal 
National Institute of Blind People (RNIB) and the Royal Academy of 
Music. VIML is funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council 
(AHRC). I would be extremely grateful for your help with completing our 
confidential online survey and forwarding this message to 
visually-impaired musicians you know. We want to hear from 
visually-impaired adult musicians (18 years of over) from across the 
world, not just the UK. So far, we have been speaking with some really 
inspiring visually-impaired musicians in the US, Australia, the UK, New 
Zealand, Canada, Indonesia, Malaysia, Denmark, Kenya, Burundi and 
Colombia about their experiences. However, we do need more questionnaire 
responses to get a fuller picture of visual impairment and music-making. 
Our interest is in anyone who is visually-impaired and involved in 
making music at any level of participation (from beginner 
instrumentalists and singers to professionals, including composers), and 
we are interested in people involved in various musical contexts and 
genres (from classical music to jazz, folk or pop).


The survey can be reached by clicking the link below in this e-mail:

https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/V8R9Q3X

Alternatively, please contact me via an email to david.baker at ioe.ac.uk 
<mailto:david.baker at ioe.ac.uk>and we will arrange to gather the 
information from you by Skype. We would be grateful if any person who is 
not a UK citizen could indicate their country in the address field at 
the end of the survey. The questionnaire link allows one response per 
computer.


We are planning a conference from “Visually-impaired musicians’ lives”, 
which will take place in London on 6 March 2015. This will be a 
wonderful opportunity to share project findings, but we will also have 
performances and guest speakers on issues of accessible music 
technologies, the employment of visually-impaired musicians, score 
formats, academic research in this field, and various other themes. If 
you are in London at that time, you would be welcome to come. If you 
want to know more about VIML, please visit our website, where I will 
upload information as the project develops:

http://vimusicians.ioe.ac.uk <http://vimusicians.ioe.ac.uk/>


Thank you in advance for your time and support with this project, which 
we hope will make a difference to the lives of visually-impaired 
musicians of all kinds in the future.

With all good wishes,

David

Dr David Baker

Room 628A

“Visually-impaired musicians’ lives” project

Institute of Education, University of London

20 Bedford Way

Bloomsbury

London WC1H 0AL


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