KEN UENO at BAMPFA
Thursday, 16 February, noon Video Across the Arts: Secret Meridians and Somatic Films Professor Ken Ueno will present a lecture on his Somatic Films for the Video Art in Context lecture series at BAM/PFA. Ueno’s somatic films (and secret meridians—a Uenoian term for temporally specific video captures) extend his practice as a musician and performer, a practice that resists the neoliberal surveillance mode that datafies our bodies. Datafication flattens ontologies, whereas Ueno champions the unique experience of each individual life as sacred.
BLOCH LECTURE The Music Department is honored to announce that Toshio Hosokawa will be in residency for two weeks (Jan. 17-30), serving as the Bloch Lecturer. He will present a lecture on his works on Jan. 27 (3-4:30) in 125 Morrison Hall. During his residency, the Center for Japan Studies will also bestow upon him the Berkeley Japan Prize.
HIRAYAMA SCHOLARSHIP Composition graduate student Sarah Grace Graves was awarded the Michiko Hirayama Scholarship to perform the music of Giacinto Scelsi at Fondazione Isabella Scelsi in Rome in July 2023. |
SCOTT WINS SEEGER PRIZE Melissa J. Scott, Ph.D. candidate in Ethnomusicology, received the 2022 Charles Seeger Prize from the Society for Ethnomusicology for her paper “The Call to Prayer and the Sonic Materiality of Displacement in Amman, Jordan.” The Seeger award recognizes the most distinguished student paper at the SEM Annual Meeting from the previous year.
BERKELEY VOICES PODCAST Music Ethnomusicology graduate student Everardo Reyes and Music alum John-Carlos Perea (M.A. 2005; Ph.D. 2009) joined the Berkeley Voices podcast to discuss the 1969 American Indian occupation of Alcatraz.
HUMANITIES MAJORS BOOMING AT BERKELEY First-years declaring majors in the Division of Arts and Humanities are up 43.2% over 5 years and 121% over last year. |
DZWONCZYK PIECE AT ISMIR Graduate composition student Luke Dzwonczyk’s piece The Oratory of Saint Philip Neri was presented at the 23rd International Society for Music Information Retrieval Conference (ISMIR 2022) as part of the music program.
NAKAMURA TO PRESENT ON CONTEMPORARY ASIAN THEATRE Composition Graduate Student Aine Nakamura will participate in a panel and hold a workshop at The University of Göttingen, Germany, at The 1st International Symposium on Contemporary Asian Theatre.
ANGEL ISLAND PROJECT UC Berkeley’s Angel Island arts project explores immigration, architectures of incarceration through various mediums. In December, the Berkeley Chamber Chorus, conducted by Wei Cheng and the Del Sol Quartet, will perform “Angel Island — Oratorio for Voices and Strings” at Hertz Hall. |
