The Ryerson Music Series - Interdisciplinary Perspecitives was created by Prof. Kim Chow-Morris in 2008 as a way to "connect faculty, students, staff, and community members from diverse disciplinary perspectives with interest and research backgrounds in music, [to] learn from and diaolouge with each other..." Dr. Kim Chow-Morris spoke with "faculty members across Ryerson whose research and creative work focused on or incorporated music or sound". The first session was a musical concert put on by musical faculty members called Music Cafe and held in Oakham House in September 2008 and the other session of the 2008 / 2009 academic year were Ryerson faculty from Music, History, Psychology, and Early Childhood Education. The second year brough Professor David Lidov from York University. Audiences have been from Physics, Journalism, and others.