Colloquium Series: Beth Coleman & Sumanth Gopinath

Please join us for our next NYU GSAS Music Colloquium, featuring Beth Coleman and Sumanth Gopinath. Register below to receive the Zoom link!

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I will talk about the installation “Sound Transforms Space,” from spring 2019 presentation at BiM (black imagination matters, building information machines) Princeton School of Architecture, and during my artists residency at Pioneer Works, Brooklyn. The project offers a sonic exploration of the architectural. This begins with the hailing of a deep listening practice where participants tune into their environment and then commence to “sound space” across three modalities: sound, digital (VR), and analogue gesture (charcoal/hand). The piece began as code for making legible, dimensional gestures in virtual models of the place where one stood. Instead of VR/immersive tech taking one away from place, the play here was to use virtual gestures and acoustic reverberations to locate the subject in a time/place. The 3D print sculptural objects are “glyphs,” shards of artifacts of a particular moment in time/space.

Dr. Beth Coleman is Associate Professor of Data & Cities at the Institute of Communication, Culture, Information and Technology and Faculty of Information, University of Toronto, where she directs the City as Platform lab. Coleman is an artist and technologist who creates public, civic, and poetic works. She is the co-founder of SoundLab Cultural Alchemy, an internationally acclaimed multimedia art and sound platform. She has a history of international exhibition including venues such as the Whitney Museum of American Art, New Museum of Contemporary Art, and Musée d'Art moderne Paris. She has held artist residencies at Recollets, Paris, and Waag, Amsterdam, and Pioneer Works, among others. She had published the monograph Hello Avatar (MIT Press) along with numerous articles. Her art publications include collaborations with Ellen Gallagher, Chris Ofili, and Parkett. Her research affiliations include Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society, Harvard University, the Data & Society Institute, New York, and Google Brain.

Sumanth Gopinath is Associate Professor of Music Theory in the School of Music at the University of Minnesota Twin Cities. His research interests include Steve Reich, musical minimalism, sound studies, new media, and US-American experimental and popular music of the 20th and 21st centuries. He is the author of The Ringtone Dialectic (MIT Press, 2013) and co-edited The Oxford Handbook of Mobile Music Studies (2014) with Jason Stanyek and Rethinking Reich (Oxford University Press, 2019) with Pwyll ap Siôn.

All colloquium events are free and open to the public.