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Ellen Waterman

1997Ph.D. Critical Studies and Experimental Practice, Department of Music, University of California, San Diego
1992M.A. Performance, Department of Music, University of California, San Diego
1986Certificate. Orchestral Training Program. The Royal Conservatory of Music, Toronto
1985Bachelor of Music, Performance, School of Music, University of Manitoba.

20th Century Music, The Musical Avant-Garde, Introduction to Music, Popular Musics of the World, Music of the Near and Far East, Music of Canada, Music and Identity, Music Gender and Sexuality, Contemporary Music Ensemble, Applied Flute.
Graduate faculty: Ph.D. in Literary and Theatre Studies in English, M.F.A., U of Guelph; Centre for Theory Culture and Politics, Trent U.

Improvisation, Community, and Social Practice is an international research project that examines the aesthetic and social implications of this, the most widespread of musical practices.
Sounds Provocative: experimental music performance in Canada is an ethnographic research project comparing eleven sites of experimental music performance across Canada.
In and Out of the Sound Studio is a multi-university project exploring women, gender and sound technology.

Critical Studies in Improvisation/tudes critiques en improvisation is an online, peer reviewed, open access, interdisciplinary journal which examines the social impact of improvisational music: http://www.criticalimprov.com.

2007 SSHRC-MCRI, $2,488,619, Improvisation, Community and Social Practice. (University of Guelph Site-Coordinator and Co-investigator. An interdisciplinary project based at University of Guelph, McGill University, and University of British Columbia. Dr. Ajay Heble [Guelph] is Project Director.)
2006 SSHRC MCRI Letter of Intent, $20,000, Improvisation, Community and Social Practice, (co-investigator).
2005SSHRC Standard Research Grant, $39,688, Sounds Provocative: Experimental Music Performance in Canada

2007Concert with Pauline Oliveros (accordion/electronics) and Jesse Stewart (drums). War Memorial Hall, University of Guelph. January 11.
2006Improvisation concert with Tim Brady (electric guitar), Scott Thomson (trombone), and Joe Sorbara (drums), Array Music, Toronto. November 6.
2006Interface Series - Association of Improvising Musicians, Toronto - with Stephen Grew (piano) and Anne Bourne (cello). July.
2006Wild Fruits 2: Like a ragged flock, like pulverized jade. Original work for electroacoustic soundscape (James Harley) and improvised flute (Waterman). Thursdays at Noon Series, March 16; and President's Spring Luncheon, Arts Showcase, May 13, University of Guelph.
2006Guelph Jazz Festival "Three Tuesdays" series, E-bar, April 4. With Nicole Mitchell, Jesse Stewart, and Matt Brubeck.
2005(Wo)Mnnlicher Music. Original composition for improvisational flute and electroacoustic soundscape (Waterman). Creative Music Think Tank, Vancouver International Jazz Festival, June 27; and The Upgrade, Socit des Arts et Technologies, Montral, July 27.