work

  • Audio CDs of tunes and songs
    2011

    Works written over the past 25 years of raising a family.

  • Playful DisPlay: Contemplating McLuhan’s View of the Modern Cadaver
    2011

    For Enculturation's Special Issue on Marshall McLuhan, the paper is written from the perspective of science teacher (with a nursing background) in the context of the University of Art and Design--where students of all ages have access to the cadver to draw, learn from and contemplate the effect of the cadaver on society.  Marshall McLuhan's approach to the playful new cadaver brings keen attention to the body as plastination technology that shifts our perspective from previous...

  • Breathing August
    2011

    Breathing August honours Jane's father's walk down a road in Ontario's Haliburton woods and includes the tune "Gordon's Walk" and images of the family cabins.

  • Backyard Music Party, featuring "Jane's Full Deck"by David Donaldson
    2011

    At my 52nd, Full Deck, birthday party, David brought this music as a present; the photos and video were taken (in twilight and with a tiny camera) by Elaine Jaltema, August 21, 2009.  The party and the music were the motivation for an album of Jane's music: Breathing August.

  • Annual Goof Off Gang
    2011

    Annual Goof Off Day (AGOG) is a tradition that involes skiing Whistler or Blackcomb as late as possible in the season. This particular May day offered fresh powder, a fine blue sky, and four part harmonies on the chairlift. The music is "Humours Of Winter Solstice" by Jane Slemon, written (in December of 1985) when Jane was missing winter on a beach in Thailand.