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Collaborative music-making with Special Education Needs students and their assistants : A study on music playing among preverbal individuals with the Funki instruments

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The field of research dedicated to Accessible Digital Musical Instruments (ADMIs) is growing and there is an increased interest in how different accessible music technologies can be used to promote diversity and inclusion in music-making. Researchers currently voice the need to move away from a techno-centric view of musical expression and to focus more on the sociocultural contexts in which ADMIs are used. In this study, we explore how “Funki”, a set of ADMIs developed for students with Profound and Multiple Learning Disabilities(PMLD) can be used in a collaborative music-making setting in a Special Educational Needs(SEN) school, together with assistants. Previous findings have suggested that the musical interactions taking place, as well as the group dynamics, were highly dependent on the session assistants and their level of participation. It is therefore important to consider the active role of assistants, who may have little or no prior music training. The instruments provided should allow the assistant to not only help the students in making music but also enable the assistants themselves to create sounds without interfering or disturbing the sounds produced by the students. In the current work, we show how the Funki instruments could be expanded with WebAudioXML (waxml) for mapping user interactions to control music and audio parameters and make it possible for assistants to control musical aspects like the tonality, rhythmic density, or structure of the composition. The system was tested in a case study with four students and their assistants at a SEN school, including semi-structured interviews on how Funki supported inclusive music-making and the assistant’s role in this context. The findings of this work highlight how ADMIs could be conceptualized and designed to include special education teachers, teaching assistants, and other carers more actively in collaborative music-making. 
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hal-04331696 , version 1 (08-12-2023)

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Maria Svahn, Josefine Hölling, Hans Lindetorp, Emma Frid, Kjetil Falkenberg. Collaborative music-making with Special Education Needs students and their assistants : A study on music playing among preverbal individuals with the Funki instruments. NNDR 16th Research Conference Nordic Network on Disability Research, May 2023, Reykjavik, Iceland. ⟨hal-04331696⟩
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