Research Projects
- Urban Global Electronic Music Project, Dr Adu-Gilmore—PI, Analysis of global electronic music by underrepresented composers, as producers, and the DJ sites and spaces that they operate in. by Nov 20. Project involves archiving, music analysis, transcription and market analysis, NYU URCF.
- Critical Sonic Practice Symposium and Archive, Dr Adu-Gilmore—PI, Research Provost, NYU Humanities seed fund, May 2, 2020. Symposium, with Kwami Coleman (Gallatin) and Fred Moten (Tisch) , Steinhardt Black Box Theater. Closed symposium thinktank of underrepresented performance practitioners, and writers by invite; followed by public performance. Archive of underrepresented electronic music creators of the Americas: RA currently preparing archive, Research Provost’s Mega-grants Seed Initiative award.
- AFRINUM: Accra Segment, Dr Adu-Gilmore—PI — A four-year insight research project directed by ethnomusicologist and French Research Chair (CNRS) and University of Social Sciences, Paris (EHESS) professor Emmanuelle Olivier AFRINUM grant through 2022. Analysis of music by producers in Accra. Creation of pedagogical music production tools for underrepresented (female) music producers in Accra. Can be scaled to other countries, French National Research Agency (l’ANR).
Interdisciplinary Music
- Mahakala Oratorio (Adu-Gilmore composer) for large chamber ensemble, two voices and electronics: for November 2020, Commissioned by Chatterbird Ensemble, Nashville and New Music USA Grant Award.
- Freedom Suite and Other Stories Album Project, Adu-Gilmore PI, Steinhardt Arts & Culture grant, recording with piano/bass/drum trio and PUBLIQ Quartet. (Recording date paused due to COVID). Presentation at Roulette as composer-in-residence in Spring 2021.
- Hui, 3D immersive theatre project on Maori cosmologies, by Director Kaisa Pol, Leila Adu-Gilmore & Ria Paki, funded by Creative New Zealand.
Upcoming Publications
- The Music Technology Cookbook, “Seeded Composition” for Editor Adam Patrick Bell – completed, submitted and accepted for publication in 2020.
- Electronic Cities: Music Policies and Space in the 21st Century, “Chapter 15: Embodied Listening: Grassroots Governance in Electronic Dance Music Venues in Accra (Ghana)” for Eds. Sébastien Darchen, Damien Charrieras, Jon Willsteed, Palsgrave McMillan, Geography of Media, by Palgrave Macmillan – completed, submitted and accepted for publication in 2020.
Pedagogy
Critical Sonic Practice lab commits to updating current and creating new music technology course content focused on black, indigenous and local musics and new and existing methodologies.
Global Electronic Music I: Course Description
This studio course examines a mixtape selection of electronic music from NYC to Capetown to Tokyo using music theory and composition. Global electronic music necessitates diverse methodologies in critical discussion of the research of this music in a post/neo-colonial setting. The class will engage in critical discussion of the studio and the digital audio workstation (DAW) as compositional tools on the continuum of improvisation, and the music itself as innovation, communication and historiography in global communities of the Information age.
Critical Sonic Practice Journal Group
Graduate journal article reading group on the field of music technology, decolonization, critical race theory, accessibility & ethics.
