[Menvi-discuss] A Most Important Project for Members

[Dale Lieser]

Wow! The survey is quite extensive. But I am happy I was able to
participate.


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From: Menvi-discuss [mailto:menvi-discuss-bounces at menvi.org] On Behalf Of
Richard Taesch
Sent: Monday, June 02, 2014 2:01 PM
To: david.baker at ioe.ac.uk
Cc: menvi-discuss at menvi.org
Subject: [Menvi-discuss] A Most Important Project for Members

Dear Dr. Baker, and all MENVI list members:

I have sent this message as a forward to our list, and copied Dr. Baker as
well.

Members: kindly read his information below, as it appears to be a fine
project that all of you can benefit from, and contribute significantly to
our cause as well. Please write directly to him, but kindly copy our list
also.

Sincerely,
Richard Taesch
MENVI HQ - www.menvi.org

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Subject: MENVI web site comment or question
From:    david.baker at ioe.ac.uk
Date:    Mon, June 2, 2014 4:21 am
To:      contact at menvi.org

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name: David Baker
City_State_Province: London
country: UK
Phone: 44 (0)1753 524740

comments: Dear Sir or Madam,

I would be extremely grateful for your help. 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 in letting your MENVI members know by
e-mail, newsletter, e-bulletin, etc. about our confidential online survey.
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, 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/VKG3ZRC

Alternatively, please do let your members know to contact me (David Baker)
via an email to david.baker at ioe.ac.uk and I will arrange to gather the
information from them by Skype. We would be grateful if any respondent 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 2014. 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 anyone is in London
at that time, they 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

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,

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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