Stories: Music

The Tap-Tap: Wearable Device Transforms Learning for Blind and Low-Vision Musicians

The Tap-Tap: Wearable Device Transforms Learning for Blind and Low-Vision Musicians

Designed by a Carleton PhD student to assist blind and low vision musicians, the tap-tap is a wearable haptic device that enables people to send vibration signals in real-time to one another.

Petr Cancura Named Artist-in-Residence for Carleton’s Music Program

Petr Cancura Named Artist-in-Residence for Carleton’s Music Program

Carleton University’s School for Studies in Art and Culture is pleased to announce that genre-defying multi-instrumentalist Petr Cancura will be the artist-in-residence in Carleton’s Music Program for the winter 2021 semester. Cancura previously served as... More

Fall Graduation 2020: Music Program Boosts Possibilities for New Canadian

Fall Graduation 2020: Music Program Boosts Possibilities for New Canadian

Carleton’s Fall Graduation 2020, a university-wide online celebration, launched on Saturday, Nov. 14. Watch the celebration at the Carleton Grads 2020 website now! When Mickey Magennis applied to the singer-songwriter stream of Carleton’s Bachelor of... More

Carleton Music Partners with the Ottawa Symphony Orchestra

Carleton Music Partners with the Ottawa Symphony Orchestra

For budding classical musicians, playing with professionals can make a big difference. That’s why the Carleton Music Department and the Ottawa Symphony Orchestra (OSO) have partnered to allow students to train and perform alongside experienced... More

The Sound of Self-Isolating: Carleton Music Prof’s Videos Spread During Virus

The Sound of Self-Isolating: Carleton Music Prof’s Videos Spread During Virus

It started as a gift to friends and Facebook followers—a musical video a day for 40 days of quarantine to counteract bad news and boredom during the novel coronavirus pandemic. Jesse Stewart, an award-winning percussionist,... More

Impressive Pipe Organ Back in Action at Dominion-Chalmers

Impressive Pipe Organ Back in Action at Dominion-Chalmers

After almost eight months, an integral part of the downtown Carleton Dominion-Chalmers Centre (CDCC) has come home. A 54-year-old Casavant pipe organ—Ottawa's largest wind instrument—has finally returned to the church following a rehabilitation in which... More

Ottawa Bluesfest: Carleton Bands on the Big Stage

Ottawa Bluesfest: Carleton Bands on the Big Stage

For 11 days every July, the normally empty fields of LeBreton Flats host a lineup of musicians spanning genres and generations. Since Ottawa Bluesfest launched 25 years ago, it has attracted some of the biggest... More

Rich Tapestries Documentary Explores the Power of Music

Rich Tapestries Documentary Explores the Power of Music

Early in a new documentary film that captures the heart of Jesse Stewart's project We Are All Musicians he explains that its intention is explicit in its name. "That's the idea that everybody—you know, everyone—has... More

(Redirect) The Sound of Self-Isolating

(Redirect) The Sound of Self-Isolating

A New Era for Classical Music

A New Era for Classical Music

Dominion-Chalmers United Church was built as a sacred space for worship in 1912-1914, but on April 1 the sanctuary echoed with a new kind of exaltation thanks to a budding partnership between Carleton University and... More

Examining Music in Canada

Examining Music in Canada

When Ellen Waterman attends a concert, she does more than listen to the music. Waterman — Carleton University’s inaugural Helmut Kallmann Chair for Music in Canada — pays attention to how people in the audience respond and... More

Unsung Hero: Projects Honour NFB Composer Eldon Rathburn

Unsung Hero: Projects Honour NFB Composer Eldon Rathburn

For three decades, he composed music for films that helped define Canadian culture. He collaborated with celebrated artists at home and abroad, including fabled silent-film star Buster Keaton, legendary filmmaker Don Messer. He played an... More