Illinois researchers’ project seeks to learn from Indigenous practices in music, engineering

An interdisciplinary research project has led to new ways of making music and of approaching engineering design through interactions with Indigenous communities in Bolivia and Sierra Leone.

Bernhard Scully, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign music professor and professional French horn player, and Ann-Perry Witmer, lecturer in the Department of Agricultural and Biological Engineering and Carle Illinois College of Medicine teaching professor of biomedical and translational sciences, led a project to explore place-based music and technological practices of rural and Indigenous communities that have been disregarded by Western academic institutions.

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