Ellen Waterman
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BIO
Ellen Waterman is Professor and Helmut Kallmann Chair for Music in Canada at Carleton University.
Her interdisciplinary research in music and sound studies engages with improvisation, artistic research, Deaf and disability-led music, and participatory sonic arts for social change. She is also a flutist/vocalist specializing in creative improvisation. Her text score Bodily Listening in Place explores intersensory improvisation and is published in A Year of Deep Listening: 365 Text Scores for Pauline Oliveros. Waterman’s books include four edited collections: Sonic Geography Imagined and Remembered; Art of Immersive Soundscapes; Negotiated Moments: Improvisation, Sound, and Subjectivity; and, as a member of the AUMI Editorial Collective, the open access book Improvising Across Abilities: Pauline Oliveros and the Adaptive Use Musical Instrument.
Her current edited book project is a critical examination of the legacy of Canadian composer, acoustic ecologist, and polemicist R. Murray Schafer. In 2021, Waterman founded the Research Centre for Music, Sound, and Society in Canada, dedicated to exploring the complex and diverse roles that music and sonic arts play in shaping Canadian society. Through the partnered Resonance Project (funded by SSHRC and Canada Council for the Arts) she developed a novel community-engaged research-creation methodology.
She is currently establishing the Sonic Arts Participation Lab (funded by the Canada Foundation for Innovation) to support community-engaged research-creation with equity-owed groups.
