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AUMI-Futurism: the Elsewhere and "Elsewhen" of (Un)Rolling the Boulder and Turning the Page
Stewart, Jesse Tucker, Sherrie Williams, Peter Haaheim, Kip
Stewart, Jesse
Tucker, Sherrie
Williams, Peter
Haaheim, Kip
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This article discusses two performances that used the movement-to-music technology known as the "Adaptive Use Musical Instrument" or AUMI to allow differently-abled participants to collaborate with one another: (Un)Rolling the Boulder: Improvising New Communities, a multimedia, mixed-ability improvisation that was staged at the University of Kansas in October 2013 and Turning the Page, an interdisciplinary musical theatre piece premiered in Ottawa, Canada in April 2014. We theorize these performances as examples of "AUMI-Futurism”, combining insights gleaned from two different sources: the Afrofuturist philosophy of composer, improviser, and bandleader Sun Ra, and the work of disability studies scholar Alison Kafer. This essay examines the collaborative, improvisatory processes that surrounded (Un)Rolling the Boulder and Turning the Page, focusing in particular on the role that the AUMI software played in imagining and performing new communities.
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2018-01-10
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University of Exeter
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Adaptive use musical instrument (AUMI), Afrofuturism, Disability studies, Community music, Music and technology, Improvisation
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Stewart, J., Tucker, S., Williams, P. A., & Haaheim, K. (2017). AUMI-Futurism: the Elsewhere and" Elsewhen" of (Un) Rolling the Boulder and Turning the Page. Vol. 6 (1), pp. 4-24. http://musicandartsinaction.net