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Critical Sonic Practice Symposium 2022
Critical Sonic Practice Lab invites you to an evening of discussion and music with a special post-note from William Parker.
- At 5pm, artists and scholars from NYU, Arts for Arts, Pratt, Stevens Institute of Technology, Stop Shopping Choir and more discuss radical teaching and archiving.
- At 7:30pm, we perform improvised, acoustic, and electronic music, a sound installation and a live DJ.
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.
Program
5pm Discussions
- 5pm 1. What is radical music teaching and why now?
(30 min participants, 30 min attendee Q&A) - 6pm 2. What is a radical music archive and why now?
(30 min participants, 30 min attendee Q&A)
7.30pm Performance
Artists/Scholars
Post-Notes by William Parker
William Parker is a bassist, improviser, composer, writer, and educator from New York City, heralded by The Village Voice as, “the most consistently brilliant free jazz bassist of all time.”
In addition to recording over 150 albums, he has published six books and taught and mentored hundreds of young musicians and artists.
Parker’s current bands include the Little Huey Creative Music Orchestra, In Order to Survive, Raining on the Moon, Stan’s Hat Flapping in the Wind, and the Cosmic Mountain Quartet with Hamid Drake, Kidd Jordan, and Cooper-Moore. Throughout his career he has performed with Cecil Taylor, Don Cherry, Milford Graves, and David S. Ware, among others.
Leila Adu-Gilmore
Leila Adu is an astonishing force in the space where electropop, avant-classical and singer-songwriter meet. Exploring her roots in New Zealand, Britain and Ghana, Adu is an international artist who has performed at festivals and venues across the world. Compared to Nina Simone and Joanna Newsome by WNYC, Adu has released five acclaimed albums, and has given visionary solo BBC and WQXR performances.
Adu’s credits include Ojai Music Festival, Bang on a Can, the New Jersey Symphony Orchestra, Late Night with David Letterman, and composing for a Billboard charted album. Adu holds a Princeton University music composition PhD. In 2022, Leila Adu–Gilmore has been awarded a Charles Ives Composer Fellowship’s from the American Academy of Arts and Letters.
Erich Barganier
Erich Barganier is a composer and multi-instrumentalist hailing from St. Petersburg, Florida who currently resides between New York City and Montreal. He writes chamber, orchestral, film, solo instrumental and electronic music that explores experimental technology, the edge of noise, improvisation, generative processes, and new forms of notation. His music has been released on People Places Records, [walnut+locust], Belts and Whistles Records, Infrequent Seams, Off Latch Press, Nebularosa Records, Pleroma Records, NOUS Records, and Janus Music and Sound. He currently teaches in the music technology faculty at New York University.
Cisco Bradley
Cisco Bradley is associate professor of history at the Pratt Institute where his research focuses primarily on music and migration. He is the author of three books and numerous articles, including Universal Tonality: The Life and Music of William Parker (Duke University Press, 2021) and The Williamsburg Avant-Garde: Experimental Music and Sound on the Brooklyn Waterfront (Duke University Press, forthcoming, April 2023).
Bradley founded the Free Jazz Oral History Project in 2016 which has systematically conducted more than 170 interviews with the founding generations of the music. His current research examines the role of the Great Migration in the rise of Black creative music/free jazz throughout different regions of the U.S.
Isabelle Burger-Weiser
Isabelle Burger-Weiser is a songwriter, vocalist, and electronic producer based in Brooklyn, New York. She studied philosophy and physics as an undergraduate at Columbia University and is now a Master’s student in the NYU Music Technology program. With a background in writing, radio and live performance, she strives to play a role in the social and cultural conversation surrounding music in addition to working on her own creative projects.
Her current research focuses on sound design for film and developing immersive sonic experiences tied to environmental awareness and the realities of climate change. She continues to make and release tracks as a recording artist on multiple platforms. To listen to her compositions and learn more, visit www.izabellemusic.com
Savitri D
Savitri D is an activist. She is the director of Reverend Billy & The Stop Shopping Choir a radical performance community based in New York City. Since 2001 she has staged direct actions, interventions and spectacles in contested space all over the world and collaborated with communities to create paths of resistance and resilience. Most recently she has been deeply involved in issues of immigration, extinction and fossil fuel extraction.
She has lectured and led workshops on the topic of creative resistance at Universities & Festivals for more than 15 years and frequently offers trainings for activists in New York City.
The Church of Stop Shopping is the recipient of an Obie Award, the Alpert award on the Arts and the Edwin Booth Award in Theater.
Daniel Faronbi
Daniel Faronbi is a Music Technology PhD student in the Music and Audio Research Laboratory (MARL) at New York University. His advisors are Dr. Juan P. Bello and Dr. Leila Adu-Gilmore. His research involves using signal processing and machine learning techniques for the generation and analysis of music and other audio signals. This includes research areas like Music Information Retrieval, Machine Listening, Computational Musicology, and more. Daniel is also an active jazz pianist, music producer, and composer. He has performed for music groups spanning a wide variety of genres and has received both jazz and classical training. He has shared the stage with jazz heavy hitters such as Benny Golson, Bobby Sanibria, Micah Bell, and Dave Stryker and maintains an active performance schedule at various venues in New York City.
Lainie Fefferman
Alex Morris
Willie Payne
Willie Payne (williepayne.com) is a PhD Candidate in Music Technology at NYU, the Research Assistant for the NSF-funded project Dancing Across Boundaries (DAB!), and the Accessible Technology Fellow at The Filomen M. D’Agostino Greenberg (FMDG) School. Willie studies how technology can facilitate creative expression and open pathways for people to express themselves on their own terms. His publications have received awards at highly selective conferences including Best Paper at Web4All and Best Paper Honorable Mention at CHI, and his long term mentorship efforts have been highlighted at NYU.
Iran Roman
Originally from Uriangato, Mexico, Iran R. Roman is a postdoctoral scholar at NYU’s Music and Audio Research Lab. His research focuses on understanding how individuals interact with their environment to carry out complex tasks like music-making. He develops multimodal models able to see and listen an individual’s actions, to detect and anticipate movements and their semantic meaning. Iran’s research also analyzes the biases in datasets and models used to understand complex human-object and human-human interactions, as well as the the implications of these limitations.
Parichat Songmuang
Parichat Songmuang graduated from New York University with her Master of Music degree in Music Technology at New York University and Advanced Certificate in Tonmeister Studies. As an undergraduate, she studied for her Bachelor of Science in Electronics Media and Film with a concentration in audio at Towson University, Maryland.
Her main interests lie within the field of music recording, ranging from recording techniques to the post-production stage. Recently, her research focuses on 3D reproduction, including 3D recording techniques, with an interest in archaeoacoustics. She is the current Studio Manager at NYU Steinhardt and a current Ph.D student within the Music Technology Program.