Vocal Improvisation and Environmental Vocal Exploration

Canadian Music Therapy

In this episode, we welcome Nicola Oddy from Perth Ontario. Nicola will be sharing details about her latest research project: Seeking Awareness of Our Selves and the Environment through Vocal Improvisation in The Singing Field. She will also explain how this research will be used in her music therapy practice.

Here is a little more about Nicola:

Nicola has been a music therapist in Canada for 37 years, using the voice as her primary mode of intervention in both her practice and in her research. She is a proud MTA, a registered psychotherapist in Ontario, and is a Certified Counsellor with the Canadian Counselling and Psychotherapy Association. Currently, she supervises interns and professional music therapists who come to her for one-to-one and group music centred supervision both in person and online. She also teaches courses at Concordia University in Creative Arts Therapies and at Carleton University in the school for studies of art and culture and in the school for industrial design. Nicola recently fulfilled a life-long dream by completing her PhD, studying singing as a listening practice at Carleton University in the music stream of the Cultural Mediations program. Through her research-creation project, The Singing Field, she learned how environmental vocal exploration (EVE)in place can be a tool for increasing awareness of both self and place. She has written several published articles and book chapters and has served her music therapy community as conference co-ordinator, proceedings editor, on the editorial review board for the Canadian Journal of Music Therapy, and as president of the CAMT.
She lives in Perth Ontario, where singing takes on a central role in her community work as she leads inclusive choirs and raises funds to increase music therapy opportunities for both therapists and music therapy recipients in Perth and Ottawa.

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