Sound Walking with the University of Waterloo’s University Colleges; Spring 2025
This spring, Grebel turned into a space for listening, wandering, and discovering the sounds of the medieval past through a chant-inspired soundwalk. Conrad Grebel University College, in partnership with St. Jerome’s University at the University of Waterloo, participated in the Digital Analysis of Chant Transmission Project (DACT) Soundwalk: “Singing Musical Fragments: Waterloo.” The soundwalk invited visitors to explore and listen to medieval chants originating from many different time periods and locations. The DACT Project is a Canadian Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) Partnership Project led by Jennifer Bain, PI, and many co-investigators across Canada and around the world. DACT collaborators Kate Helsen, Debra Lacoste, and Kate Kennedy Steiner, created the DACT Soundwalk as an activity for the annual conferences of the Canadian University Music Society (MUSCAN) and the Canadian Society of Medievalists held at UWaterloo in May 2025.