Critical Sonic Practice Symposium
Critical Sonic Practice Symposium focused on creative music and electronic music, facilitating relevant discussions among music scholars, bookers, funders, creators, and speakers from media and labels. The lab hosted an afterparty, concluding the event with performances by a selection of creative musical artists. Critical Sonic Practice lab was founded by Dr. Leila Adu-Gilmore (NYU Steinhardt). The symposium was moderated Dr. Kwami Coleman (NYU Gallatin) & Dr. Kevin Gotkin (NYU Steinhardt), Jason King (NYU Tisch) and CSP lab manager Delia Beatriz. Guests included: Andrew Mason/Wax Poetics, Isabelia Herrera/Pitchfork, Tygapaw, Lucia Anaya/derre-tida (Mexico City), Dreamcrusher, Bon (London), Amandine Pras (Paris), BL Shirelle (Die Jim Crow Records), Rajna Swaminathan & more.
Elegy
In March of 2021, Critical Sonic Practice Lab presented ‘Elegy,’ a multimedia/sound art and music stream. The title ‘Elegy’ was chosen in response to the critical sonic moment. We could not physically be together to share our fear, anger, despair, community caring and collective mourning at the continued tragedies of police brutality and COVID-19, both of which are affected by historic systemic racism, coloniality, and lack of respect for the environment.
Acknowledgements
The Critical Sonic Practice Symposium is sponsored by NYU Humanities Mega-Grant Seed Fund Initiative, with admin and tech support from Steinhardt MPAP Music Technology and & MARL (The Music and Audio Research Lab) with special thanks to NYU Gallatin & NYU Tisch, as well as artists and speakers for the collaborative effort.