ICASP Research Team (2007–2013)

Cecil Foster believes improvization is intrinsic to living. It is standard to the human condition. These ideas infuse Foster’s work. An author, academic and a public intellectual, Foster argues, in…

Tina has been a professor at McGill University’s Faculty of Law since 2006. She studies the way that communities and individuals use, abuse, reshape and ignore intellectual property law in…

Roger Dean is a composer/improviser, and since 2007 a research professor in music cognition and computation at the MARCS Institute for Brain, Behaviour and Development, Western Sydney University; and austraLYSIS,…

Kevin McNeilly teaches Cultural Studies and contemporary literatures in English at the University of British Columbia. He was the UBC site manager as well as the coordinator for the Text…

Dr. Howard Spring is an ethnomusicologist, jazz historian, and jazz guitarist who teaches ethnomusicology and jazz studies at the University of Guelph. He received his BA and MA (1980) at…

Gillian Siddall (research collaborator) is the President and Vice-Chancellor of Emily Carr University of Art + Design. Her research area is Canadian literature, with a focus on musical improvisation, both…

Ric Knowles is a dramaturge, director, scholar, editor, and Professor of Theatre Studies at the University of Guelph. As a dramaturge and director Ric has worked for 30 years at…

Jason Stanyek teaches at the University of Oxford where he is Associate Professor of Ethnomusicology and Tutorial Fellow at St. John’s College. Before arriving to Oxford he was Assistant Professor…

Jesse Stewart is a composer, percussionist, visual artist, researcher, and educator. His music has been documented on over twenty recordings including Stretch Orchestra’s self-titled debut album, which was honoured with…

David Lametti is Associate Professor of Law, Faculty of Law, McGill University. A former Associate Dean (Academic), he is a founding Member of the Centre for Intellectual Property Policy (CIPP),…