What: Archive, Memory, and Ownership
Where:
LabO Classroom (Ottawa Art Gallery, Level 1)
When: 18:15–19:15
Melody McKiver’s (they/them) musical work integrates electronics with Western classical music to shape a new genre of Anishinaabe compositions. A proud member of Obishikokaang Lac Seul First Nation, Melody is currently Assistant Professor of Indigenous Music (tenure-track) with the Desaultels Faculty of Music at the University of Manitoba and a member of the Mizi'iwe Aana Kwat (LGBTQ2S+ Council) within the Anishinaabe Nation of Treaty #3. They are a violist, composer, and scholar. Their most recent chapter, "Indigenous Voices and Ethics in Mixed-Media Compositional Practice", was recently published in the Oxford Handbook of Orchestration Studies.
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