Able Audio
Music technology provides musicians with exciting ways of making and recording music, but so often, both musicians and technology companies leave out the needs of disabled peoples. Able Audio explores the intersection of disability and music technology. Join host Sam Morgan, as this six-episode podcast series seeks to bring to light the exciting work people are doing in this space, elevating the voices and concerns of disabled people in music technology. In each episode, we talk to a different music technologist about their practice, background in music, and how their work intersects with the world of disability. Welcome to the Able Audio podcast, proudly bought to you by the New Zealand Music Commission with support from Arts Access Aotearoa.
Episodes
Matt McLaren is a musician, music producer, and sound designer based in Australia. Since 2010, Matt has run his own recording studio, S&M Productions, and has been busy recording and producing local and national artists, providing services ranging from producing, scoring, multimedia, jingles, and songwriting.
Beyond his production work, Matt can regularly be seen around Newcastle with his keyboard and a microphone performing at a...
This episode looks at Gareth Pring from Sychronised Music Creation based in Aotearoa New Zealand. Gareth works with disabled and non-disabled young people giving them the opportunity and encouragment to experiment and play with multiple creative tools.
Inspired by the work in of Drake Music in accessible music technology, Synchronised Music Creation uses a range of types of music technology to make it quick and easy for people to ...
Chris Ankin works a lot engaging with audio workstations and, in particular, works with Native Instruments’ Komplete Kontrol Keyboards as an accessible midi controller. Chris runs a website called KK-ACCESS that provides resources on how to get started with the Komplete Kontrol and his advocacy works towards encouraging music technology companies to make their products increasingly accessible.
Megan Steinberg is an experimental composer and abstract turntablist based in London. She works with found sound, chance procedures, graphic scores, quietness and microtonality.
Originally a jazz guitarist, Megan studied Composition at Brunel University where she fell into experimental music. After discovering free improv using objects, violin, and cello, in 2016 she began performing free improv and experimental music for single...
Amble Skuse is a musician and artist, working with found sound, voices, electronic processing, and site specific locations. She works with oral history archives, interviews, community memories, radio interviews, found sounds and site specific compositions to explore myriad identities in myriad locations.
She explores these ideas of identity and power through a lens of intersectional feminism. Her focus is on disability, and she i...
Dr Anthea Skinner is musicologist, researcher, and academic with lived experience of disability who works at the University of Melbourne in Australia. As a child growing up with disability, the school band was a place where Anthea could compete on a level playing field with her non-disabled peers and make like-minded friends.
Despite her musical success, Anthea was often the only disabled student in any band or orchestra she play...
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