KU-AUMI InterArts

With colleagues Kip Haaheim, Nicole Hodges Persley, Michelle Heffner Hayes, and Ray Mizumura-Pence, Sherrie Tucker is a founding member of AUMI-KU InterArts, a Member of the AUMI Consortium. Each AUMI Consortium Member institution has a particular area of focus. KU-AUMI InterArts is dedicated to exploring interdisciplinary arts and mixed-ability improvisation in performance, using the Adaptive Use Musical Instrument (AUMI).

AUMI Research Consortium

The AUMI Consortium is an international research group dedicated to exploring, sustaining, developing, and sharing the Adaptive Use Musical Instrument, a project of Pauline Oliveros and the Deep Listening Institute. Member institutions currently include: AUMI Carleton, AUMI-KU InterArts, AUMI-McGill, Ministry of Maåt-Still Listening Program-Kingston, NY, and AUMI-RPI-Kingston.

The Melba Liston Research Collective

The Melba Liston Research Collective (MLRC) is a group of interdisciplinary scholars that has been collaboratively studying the life and work of trombonist/arranger/composer Melba Liston, with initial support of the Center for Black Music Research and the Improvisation, Community, and Social Practice Research Initiative. Though largely neglected in scholarship, Liston is an important figure in post-swing big band arranging and composing, jazz trombone styling, and scoring for trombone. The MLRC employs a research design that is collaborative at every stage, from group archival research with cross-disciplinary dialogue to writing. We develop our analyses through collectively presented conference panels, and published a special issue on Liston for the Journal of Black Music Research Vol. 34, No. 1 (Spring 2014), guest-edited by CBMR Director Monica Hairston-O’Connell, who has since joined the original members of the MLRC: Dee Spencer, San Francisco State; Lisa Barg, McGill University; Tammy Kernodle, Miami University; and Sherrie Tucker, University of Kansas.