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Simon Cohen
I am a musicologist whose research focuses on French cultural history in the middle of the nineteenth century. I am interested in how music mediates and how it is mediated—its role in facilitating intimate social networks, colonial dispersion, and assertions of political power. My previous projects have considered Rossini and salon culture in Second Empire … Continue Reading »
Aine E Nakamura
My voice is of and with my body. I pursue sensibility and spirituality as my aesthetics through a focus on the nuanced possibilities of my voice. I am song itself. I recently focus on orality and movements of body. My theatricality is represented in my weaving of stories and imageries through my embodiment and sometimes … Continue Reading »
Brian Kane
Louise Meinjtes
Gabiel Ellis
Gabriel Ellis is a Ph.D. candidate in musicology at Stanford University who specializes in the aesthetics of contemporary popular music. His dissertation, “Anaesthetics: Popular Music and the Flight from Feeling,” explores how experiences of nonfeeling are evoked in musical genres from shoegaze and dreampop to trap music and cloud rap. It argues that by embracing … Continue Reading »
Danniel Ribeiro
Danniel Ribeiro is a Brazilian composer born in Bahia. Recently, Danniel’s practice has explored instrumental music, developing ways to expand the use of instruments by way of bespoke techniques, preparations, practical sculptural (and found) objects, amplification, and transduced electronics. In Brazil, Danniel studied with Paulo Costa Lima and Wellington Gomes, composers who continued the cultural resistance … Continue Reading »
Rayshell Mederos
