Dr Anthea Skinner
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 played in. It was clear that her disabled peers did not have the same access to music education that she enjoyed.
Today, Anthea’s work at the University of Melbourne aims to help those with disabilities access the benefits of music education. Her latest research project, the Adaptive Music Bridging Program, is connecting disabled students with the latest in adaptive music technologies so they can enjoy the art of learning a musical instrument, regardless of disabililty.
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.
- No. of episodes: 6
- Latest episode: 2023-03-05
- Music Music Interviews
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