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Ely Lyonblum is the Strategic Research Development Officer at the Faculty of Music, University of Toronto. His research and creative practice, largely focusing on cultural equity, ranges from the history of sound recording, American Sign Language performance art, and storytelling through music. Lyonblum trained as a documentary filmmaker at the Centre for Visual Anthropology at Goldsmiths, University of London, and completed a PhD in Music at the University of Cambridge. He regularly co-produces events with academic and not-for-profit collaborators, as well as contributes to the development of training programs for artists. Lyonblum’s work has been presented and exhibited by the MIT Media Lab, CBC Radio 1, the Smithsonian, the British Library, and cultural institutions across six continents.