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Andrew Blanton is a PhD student in music composition. His work has been performed and presented around the world in venues such as Google Cultural Lab in Paris, The University of Brasilia, The City University of Hong Kong, and STEIM Amsterdam among many others. His current research focuses on the emergent potential between cross-disciplinary arts … Continue Reading »

Anne Greenwood is a PhD student in ethnomusicology, originally from Terrace, British Columbia.  She completed a BMus in Orchestral Instrument Performance and an MA in Ethnomusicology at the University of British Columbia before starting the PhD program at the University of California, Berkeley in 2018. During her time in Vancouver, Anne performed in a wide … Continue Reading »

Composer, improviser, and vocal artist SARAH GRACE GRAVES explores complex, unnamed emotions through the re-embodiment of physical sensation. In delving into sensation as a core musical parameter, she often collaborates closely with other vocalists: night vision (2019) for two voices, her collaboration with vocalist Niki Lada at IlSuono Contemporary Music Week, explores the dramatic potential of different … Continue Reading »

Hallie Smith (b. 1995)  is a musician based in Berkeley, California. Her research is oriented towards building soft circuits/sensors, coding, installations, and emotional music. Hallie’s music has been featured in festivals such as the Yellow Barn Young Artists’ Program, Summer Institute of Contemporary Performance Practice, the SPLICE Institute, and the Valencia International Performance Academy. Previous … Continue Reading »

I focus on eighteenth- and nineteenth-century music, with particular interests in: political singing and ideas/ideals of song in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century revolutions; music and the history of environmental and climate science; song, timbre and music aesthetics in relation to articulations of the human. I came to Berkeley for my PhD in 2017, following a BA … Continue Reading »

Ph.D. Candidate in Ethnomusicology with a Designated Emphasis in New Media. My research focuses on relationships between musicians, makers, and instrument-repair-technicians in California, USA and São Paulo, Brazil. I investigate how the creative processes of both musicians and those who make and maintain their instruments are influenced by economics, climate change, pedagogical structures, automation, and … Continue Reading »

The music of Curtis Rumrill explores the intersection of literary form and modern chamber music. His works with writer, naturalist and visual artist Zachary Webber tell darkly comic stories of animals in desperate or violent predicaments. In May 2019 Kamratōn, Quince Contemporary Vocal Ensemble and Shana Simmons Dance will premiere his new opera, Her Holiness, The … Continue Reading »

I use ethnographic methods to study the role of audio communication in contentious political environments. My dissertation, entitled “Sounding Through the Firewall: A Narrative of Audio Communication Between Taiwan and China,” examines the recent history of the Taiwan Strait (1949-today) from the perspective of music and sound. Originally from the Boston area, I completed a … Continue Reading »

Andrew Harlan (b. 1995) is a composer, bassist, and sound designer, based in Berkeley, California. His music exists at the intersections of long-form ambient music, experimental club music, dystopian sound design, chamber music, and electroacoustic improvisation. His music has been featured in festivals such as Line Upon Line Winter Composition Festival, Yellow Barn Young Artists … Continue Reading »

Ryan Gourley is a Ph.D. candidate in Ethnomusicology at UC Berkeley specializing in Russian and Soviet popular music. His dissertation examines the politics of memory and musical circulation in Northern China from 1922-1949. Focused on the music of émigrés from the former Russian Empire, his research illuminates the vibrant forms of diasporic culture that developed … Continue Reading »

Virginia Georgallas is a PhD Candidate in Musicology. She holds an Associate Diploma in Piano Performance from the Royal Conservatory of Music in Toronto and she completed a BMus in Piano Performance and an MA in Musicology at the University of Toronto. Her dissertation proposes an alternative approach to the philosophical aporias and political challenges … Continue Reading »