Current Issues Colloquia (Music 252) feature presentations by UCSC music faculty, graduate students, and visiting scholars on recent research projects in composition, musicology/ethnomusicology, and performance practice, followed by focused discussion.
2015-16 Music Department Colloquium Schedule
Unless otherwise noted, colloquia are Mondays at 2:00 pm in the Music Center Performance Studio, room 131.
Fall Quarter 2016
TBA - Check emails from Thomas Pistole
Fall Quarter 2015
October 26
Anna Friz
Assistant Professor of Music, Film and Digital Media, UCSC
"Critical Transductions Across Acoustic and Radiophonic Spaces" Abstract
November 9
Natacha Diels
Assistant Professor of Computer Music, UC San Diego
"Nightmares: Three Compositions for Instruments, Gestures, and Electronic Sounds"Abstract
November 23
Larry Lipkis
Composer-in-Residence and Professor of Music at Moravian College
“Bach and Rhetoric” Abstract
Winter Quarter 2016
January 4
Stephen Hinton
Avalon Foundation Professor in the Humanities, Stanford University
“In the Valley of the Berlin Philharmonic Hall: Beethoven’s Ninth and the Consecration Concert (1963)" Abstract
February 1
Carla Scaletti
President & co-founder of Symbolic Sound Corporation
“Data-driven: How scientific data-sonification changed the way I think about music” Abstract
NEW LOCATION: Digital Arts Research Center 108
March 7
Beth Levy
Associate Professor of Musicology and Chancellor's Fellow, UC Davis
"Roy Harris, Contemporary Classicist" Abstract
Spring Quarter 2016
March 28
Max Schmeder
PhD in Music Theory, Columbia University; current History of Science PhD student, UC Berkeley
"J.S. Bach's "Goldberg" Variations (1741) as a Refutation of Isaac Newton's Opticks (1704)" Abstract
April 11
Edmund Campion
CNMAT, UC Berkeley
“Moving parts: On structure and chaotic actions in my music composition process" Abstract
May 2
Mark Katz
Ruel W. Tyson, Jr. Distinguished Professor of Humanities and Director, Institute for the Arts and Humanities, University of North Carolina
"'We Need You to Get this Right': Musical Communities and the Responsibilities of the Scholar' Abstract
May 16
Marcus Harmon
Lecturer in Music, Chapman University
“Roads Not Taken: Aesthetics, Politics and Song in the Womyn's Music Heyday" Abstract