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Fall 2007, Winter/Summer 2008: Project Administration Assistant

McGill University

Lily was in her final year of an undergraduate degree in philosophy while associated with ICASP. She was a research assistant and the financial fund manager for Eric Lewis at McGill. Prof. Lewis also supervised her honours thesis, which was about early electronic instruments like the theremin and Telharmonium, and how they shaped and were shaped by modernist aesthetics.

...partly because I know that’s the only way that we could solve a creative problem [using improvisation with children ranging in abilities] and what doesn’t work is trying to impose a template on the students who are not able to respond to that template.

– Pauline Oliveros (in working with Abilities First)