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Immersive Mixtape Festival
10:30 am – 10:30 pm ET
Evening Roundtable & Concert
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Admission is free for the Evening Roundtable and/or Concert. A ticket is required for entry.
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Critical Sonic Practice Roundtable: Making Immersive Audio Accessible
7:00 – 7:45 pm (Doors open at 6:45 pm)
A panel discussion, led by Leila Adu-Gilmore, focusing on how to increase access to immersive audio technology for marginalized communities and their music creators. Panelists: DEBIT (Delia Beatriz), MC Tingbudong (Jamel Mims), Rhiannon Catalyst &
Keynote Speaker Michael Veal (Yale University) latest book Living Space: John Coltrane, Miles Davis, and Free Jazz, from Analog to Digital
Immersive Mixtape Concert
8:00 – 10:30 pm
Showcasing new spatialized works by music creators across genres, activating the 56 channel immersive sound system in the Cantor Theatre.
Music By:
Peter Traver
Eric Lyon + Margaret Lancaster
Daniel Faronbi
Izzi Ramkissoon
Ikwe (Kelsey Van Ert)
MC Tingbudong (Jamel Mims)
Kelvin Walls
Alicia Lee & Leila Adu-Gilmore
Keisha Thompson
DEBIT (Delia Beatriz)
H Prizm & Earl Blaize (of Antipop Consortium)
MAYSUN
NYU provides reasonable accommodations to people with disabilities. Please submit your request for accommodations for events and services at least two weeks before the date of your accommodation need. Although we can’t guarantee accommodation requests received less than two weeks before the event, you should still contact us and we will do our best to meet your accommodation need. Please email music.technology@nyu.edu for assistance.
Daytime Workshops
Workshop 01
10:30 – 12:00 pm
Paul Geluso, Director of the Music Technology and Eric Lyon, Professor of Practice, School of Performing Arts, Virginia Tech, will give a lecture/demo on various immersive mixing techniques including the use of Ambisonics and Dolby Atmos. This will be very informative for all staff, students, faculty etc. See how to craft immersive mixes on the 56 channel immersive sound system.
Workshop 02
1:00 – 3:00 pm
Paul Geluso and Eric Lyon will be on-hand to upmix stereo and mono stems or format an existing 3D work for the space. All registered participants are welcome to bring in their own work and hear it in 3D through the theatre’s 56 channel immersive sound system as time permits.
Mission
Critical sonic practice takes a lens of curiosity; revealing the perplexingly private, ritualistic, yet collaborative, practical and pragmatic music studio. We engage with music creators, knowledge-sharing and researching accessible music production, as well as creation tools and mentorship in underrepresented (socio-economic, political geography, sexuality, gender, & genre) communities. Our work counteracts othering in music scholarship, technology, performance, education, industry, and audience. We unveil past and current connections in global musical epistemologies through music technology, analysis, and creation; recognizing personal identities and international collaborations while acknowledging our geographic context in the Americas. Critical Sonic Practice Lab analyzes music along the continuum of composition and improvisation in the music studio and on the dance floor, especially throughout black, Latinx, Indigenous, and regional musics.
Vision
Critical Sonic Practice Lab furthers intersectional approaches to music technology, theory, and composition. Critical Sonic Practice Lab engages with music creators—knowledge-sharing and researching accessible music production and creation tools and mentorship in underrepresented (socio-economic, political geography, sexuality, gender, & genre) communities. We affirm the nuance, richness, and expanse of global electronic musical realities and reimaginaries of our future.
Land Acknowledgement
We are gathered on the stolen Lenapehoking Lenape land, which crosses from the Hudson Valley to Delaware, and Connecticut to Pennsylvania. We acknowledge the Lenape community, their elders both past and present, as well as future generations. We acknowledge that it was founded upon forced removal and genocide of many Indigenous peoples, including those on whose land Critical Sonic Practice Lab is located. This acknowledgement demonstrates a commitment to beginning the process of working to dismantle the ongoing legacies of settler colonialism.