Police search for missing wheelchair-bound musicologist

Her current research initiative, Reaching Beyond the Given (sites.music.mcgill.ca/es/), will culminate in a book/film project tentatively entitled Moving Words, Moving Hands.  The work takes as its starting point the schism that has traditionally existed between the ways in which we describe and explain music in words and its experience in and through the body in performance.  Building on the doubleness of her own hands as the hands of a scholar and a performer, she explores the relationships, resonances, and dissonances between the movements of her hands and those of a sculptor, dancer, and visual artist, among others as she builds musical worlds in performance.  This work will, in turn, be used to expand traditional musical discourses to include musical performance and the embodied cognition that lies at the heart of the nature of music. Her phenomenological approach has been the subject of an extensive analysis in Wayne Bowman’s, Philosophical Perspectives of Music (Oxford University Press) and has been applauded for the way in which it uses film as a medium for integrating her artistry as conductor with the scholarly interests of her hand as a writer and for the ways in which research-creation projects use the exploration of movement in a variety of different artistic media to explore the infinite possibilities of the hand and music in all of its variety.