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Daniel Fisher

Affiliated Associate Professor, Ethnomusicology Associate Professor, Anthropology Director, Media Studies https://anthropology.berkeley.edu/daniel-fisher

David Burn

David Burn is professor of music and head of the Early Music Research Group at the University of Leuven. In the fall semester of 2023 he is visiting Berkeley as Pieter Paul Rubens Professor of Dutch Studies (https://dutch.berkeley.edu/visiting-faculty). He studied at Merton College, University of Oxford, and held the college’s Organ Scholarship as an undergraduate. … Continue Reading »

Juan David Rubio Restrepo

I am an artist/scholar focusing on Latin American popular musics and global experimental practices. My book project considers Ecuadorian singer Julio Jaramillo (1935-1978). Using a transnational and comparative lens, the book analyses Jaramillo’s vocality, prolific discography, mediatized figure, and Pan-American career to query how alterity, media capitalism, sound technologies, and power intertwined in the Spanish-speaking … Continue Reading »

Marié Abe

I am a scholar of music and sound with ongoing ethnographic commitments in Japan, Okinawa, Ethiopia, and the US. Broadly speaking, my research explores the political and affective affordances of (musical) sounds in contexts ranging from everyday life to social movements, primarily in contemporary Japan. My scholarship is driven by my interest in exploring how … Continue Reading »

Jon Yu

Jon Yu is a Taiwanese-American composer whose works explore notions of ritual, utility, and excess. His music has been performed internationally by ensembles and soloists such as Mivos Quartet, Neue Vocalsolisten Stuttgart, Wet Ink Ensemble, AuditivVokal Dresden, Eco Ensemble, Earplay, AsianArt Ensemble, haegeum player Soo Yeon Lyuh, and percussionist Oded Geizhals. His music has been … Continue Reading »

John Schott

John Schott, guitarist and composer, studied at Cornish College in Seattle with Jerry Granelli, Gary Peacock, Julian Priester, Janice Giteck, and Bun-Ching Lam. Since moving to the Bay Area in 1988, he has formed numerous long-term collaborative partnerships with musicians, writers, choreographers and film makers, resulting in a body of works that cuts across musical … Continue Reading »

Marty Thenell

Master of Music in Performance – Juilliard School Bachelor of Music in Performance – San Francisco Conservatory of Music   Marty Thenell is enjoying a rapidly blossoming career in percussion based in San Francisco. Beginning with drumset, his studies began at age fifteen and pivoted toward concert percussion at age twenty. As an orchestral musician, … Continue Reading »

Dionysius Arya Nataraja

Dion Nataraja is a composer, experimental vocalist, and scholar from Indonesia. He graduated from Bennington College and is currently pursuing a PhD in music composition at UC Berkeley. His musical and scholarly works have been focusing on the intersection of areas such as Javanese gamelan, electroacoustic music, microtonality, instrument building, and critical theory. The composer-pianist … Continue Reading »