Building Access in Music Making (BAMM) seeks to shape a society in which disabled people/people with disabilities can thrive in, through, with, and around music.
Why BAMM?
BAMM is a Canadian-based international research network that brings together not-for-profit organizations alongside academics who work across the disciplines of music, education, technology, and disability studies to increase and improve access to music making by following a disability-led approach.
With the mutual understanding that access is actionable, a collective responsibility, and integral to disability arts, BAMM will produce access knowledge in the three interconnected areas of:
- making music
- learning music
- designing music instruments
BAMM engages in research-creation, producing arts-based works and extending opportunities for people with disabilities to participate in music making.
BAMM projects bring together the expertise of not-for-profits and a large transdisciplinary team of academics.
Events hosted by BAMM support people with a broad range of access needs, musical experiences, and musical interests.
Who we are
The Building Access in Music Making network includes 70 people (45 academic; 25 non-academic) representing 15 not-for-profit organizations and 20 universities, 12 not-for-profit partners, and 12 academic partners.
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