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DESCRIPTION:Doctoral Colloquium: Sean Wood (PhD candidate\, Musicology) and
  Ziyue Piao (PhD candidate\, Music Technology)\n\nTitle: The ‘Little Boy B
 lue’ Trend and Reverberations of Child Mortality in 1890s America (Sean Wo
 od)\n\nEugene Field’s 1888 poem “Little Boy Blue\,” about a child’s toys g
 athering dust after his untimely death\, was once one of the most famous p
 oems in America. At least 5 different musical settings of it appeared in t
 he decade after its publication. These settings gesture toward the once-ac
 tive market for tearjerking child-loss ballads at the turn of the 20th cen
 tury. Often derided for their sentimental excesses\, I argue that songs li
 ke these remain important and revealing artifacts\, pointing to the influe
 nce of high child-mortality rates on a culture's assumptions\, habits\, an
 d aesthetic preferences.\n\nSean Wood is a sixth-year PhD candidate in Mus
 icology. His work will appear in ReSounding Loss\, a forthcoming Oxford Ha
 ndbook on music and grief.\n\n\nTitle: The Duality of Breath: From Physiol
 ogical Spontaneity to Conscious Control in Musical Expression (Ziyue Piao)
 \n\nBreathing exists at a unique intersection of human biology: it is a vi
 tal\, spontaneous physiological process that functions autonomously\, yet 
 it remains one of the few autonomic functions we can consciously control f
 or artistic expression. For musicians\, this duality of breath serves as a
  dynamic engine for phrasing and emotion. In collaboration with Yamaha\, t
 his talk investigates how this dual nature can be captured and leveraged t
 hrough wearable technology to enhance musical control. Drawing on two dist
 inct case studies\, I first explore the breathing-music coupling in piano 
 performance\, identifying how respiratory patterns appear through a visual
 ization interface called the Breathing Mirror to emphasize somatic awarene
 ss. Building on this\, I present findings from focus groups with singing t
 eachers and students\, defining the occurrence of kinesthetic mismatches\,
  discrepancies between what a performer feels their body is doing and thei
 r actual physical movement. These insights inform the ongoing design of a 
 breathing wearable\; by capturing data from both singers and pianists\, we
  have identified the most effective body areas for respiratory measurement
  in performance. Ultimately\, our goal is to bridge these kinesthetic gaps
 \, applying the duality of breath to unlock new levels of musical expressi
 on.\n\nZiyue Piao is a Ph.D. candidate in Music Technology and an FRQSC Do
 ctoral Scholar\, who is supervised by Marcelo M. Wanderley (music technolo
 gy) and Isabelle Cossette (music education). Her research sits at the inte
 rsection of music technology\, wearable design\, and embodied interaction\
 , with a specialized interest in how wearable systems can capture respirat
 ory physiology and be applied to embodied musical practices.\n\n \n\nThe D
 octoral Colloquium is open to all.\n
DTSTART:20260401T203000Z
DTEND:20260401T220000Z
LOCATION:A-832\, Elizabeth Wirth Music Building\, CA\, QC\, Montreal\, H3A 
 1E3\, 527 rue Sherbrooke Ouest
SUMMARY:Doctoral Colloquium (Music) | Sean Wood and Ziyue Piao
URL:https://www.mcgill.ca/music/channels/event/doctoral-colloquium-music-se
 an-wood-and-ziyue-piao-367705
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