February 2013

Reconstruction 3.0 – Parsons, The New School for Jazz and Contemporary Music and the Joffrey Ballet School

Feb 192013

Reconstruction 3.0: Life is a Journey is an invitation-only evening of live performances featuring original music, dance and fashion inspired by Louis Vuitton and its heritage of travel. The performances are created by students from Parsons The New School for Design, The New School for Jazz and Contemporary Music and the Joffrey Ballet School‘s Jazz and Contemporary Program.

This cross-disciplinary initiative began this past fall with five teams each consisting of a Parsons fashion designer, a New School Jazz composer, and a Joffrey Ballet School choreographer. These teams were tasked to develop a live performance consisting of an original music score, choreography, and conceptual garments that reflect the theme “Life is a Journey.” The garments are reconstructed from previous Louis Vuitton ready-to-wear and textiles.

“Reconstruction 3.0 represents our third collaboration with Louis Vuitton, and once again we’ve pushed the boundaries-this time bringing together our students with composers and choreographers,” commented Simon Collins, dean of the School of Fashion at Parsons. “It has been amazing to work with such great collaborators as Louis Vuitton, New School Jazz and the Joffrey Ballet School. The inspiring results reflect the richness and originality of this effort.”

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Lynne Tillman reads as part of PEREC! QUENEAU! OuLiPo!

Feb 182013

New School for Public Engagement faculty Lynne Tillman is one of five readers in the celebration of the work of Georges Perec and Raymond Queneau at issue Project Room.

Thu, February 21, 2013 – 8:00pm

155 Freeman St., Brooklyn (Greenpoint)

“To celebrate the publication of Georges Perec’s La Boutique Obscure and the expanded edition of Raymond Queneau’s Exercises in Style, ISSUE Project Room, in conjunction with Melville House and New Directions, presents an evening of readings and responses to both texts followed by a conversation with translators Chris Clarke and Daniel Levin Becker.”
– more info on the Issue Project room Website

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R. Murray Schafer’s keynote speech at the 2011 World Forum for Acoustic Ecology in Corfu, Greece

Feb 182013

found at the soundstudies blog Soundbytes

R. Murray Schafer – WFAE2011 from sonicstudies on Vimeo.

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Todd Lambrix

Feb 182013

Todd Lambrix is an Assistant Professor of Fine Arts and the Director of the Illustration Program. He has worked across a wide variety of media from digital video to paint to wool to resin to name a few. His work explores patterns and harmonies in nature and people and examines the adaptive tendencies they take on when these worlds clash.

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Julie Napolin

Feb 182013

My teaching and research participates in the emerging field of literary sound studies, focusing on discourses of listening and acoustics in 20th and 21st-century literature, continental philosophy, media, and music. I am interested in American and British modernism, the work of Faulkner and Conrad in particular, and what practices and philosophies of listening in the 20th century and beyond can tell us about the modernist novel as form. I am also interested in the digital humanities as an emerging discipline, and how new media art practices can unlock the sounds and voices of modernism. I am a radio producer, practicing musician, and Associate Director of “Digital Yoknapatawpha,” an online mapping of the works of Faulkner.

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Josephine Holtzman

Feb 182013

Josephine Holtzman is pursuing her MA in Media Studies at the New School, with a concentration in Sound Studies. Her interest in radio, ethnomusicology and sound experimentation began years ago at Vassar College and the Salt Institute of Documentary Studies. She has since worked as a radio producer and journalist – creating pieces for Studio 360, NPR’s Morning Edition and Weekend Edition, WNYC and WNPR. She produced the PRNDI award-winning daily news show, Where We Live, and created sound design for the Piehole experimental theater collective and The Aliens, a radio drama on WBAI. She plans to explore Acoustic Ecology and the art of Soundwalking during her time at the New School, and beyond.

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Yeong Ran Kim

Feb 182013

Yeong Ran Kim is a MA student in Media Studies at the New School. Pursuing her degree with a concentration in Sound Studies and Acoustic Environments, she delves into critical methodology intersected with experimental media practice. Her research interests center on the normalized violence under the neoliberal governance that affects the construction of the urban everyday life. Especially, she investigates acoustic forces and rhythmicity that constitute soundscapes of the urban spaces through an engagement with the sonic media in search of new aesthetic experiences and new ways of mobilizing communities. Most recent work of hers is a collaborative multimedia performance Ecstatic Corona, which is part of her multimodal thesis project Walking the Sonic: Acoustic Experience and Experiments in Corona.

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Edward keller

Feb 172013

Edward Keller is the Director of the Center for Transformative Media at The New School, and Associate
Professor at Parsons The New School for Design. He is a designer, professor, writer, musician and multimedia
artist. Prior to joining Parsons, he taught at Columbia Univ. GSAPP [1998-2010] and SCIArc [2004-09]. With
Carla Leitao he co-founded AUM Studio, an architecture and new media firm that has produced residential
projects, competitions, and new media installations in Europe and the US. His work and writing has appeared in
Punctum, Praxis, ANY, AD, Arquine, Leonardo Electronic Almanac, Architecture, Parpaings, Precis, Wired,
Metropolis, Assemblage, Ottagono, and Progressive Architecture. Chronomorphology: Active Time in
Architecture, a survey of his graduate design studios at the Columbia GSAP, was published in 2004 by CBA. He
has spoken on architecture, film, technology and ecology internationally. Ed has been an avid rockclimber for over
30 years.

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Jane Pirone

Feb 172013

Drummer, organist, noise-maker, and wacky instrument tinkerer, Jane Pirone, is an Assistant Professor in the School of Art, Media & Technology at Parsons The New School For Design. In 2005, Jane was the first faculty member to introduce and teach a “Sound Design” course into the Communication Design curriculum at Parsons and has taught many collaboration studios related to radio, sound and music, including the “Visual Music Studio”, which is comprised of an equal mix of Jazz and Parsons students. In addition to her long history as a performing musician and composer, she has experience as an indie-label producer and was the founder of the website, “drummergirl.com” (which was taken down in 2008). Jane studied film music with Martin Marks, sound art with Chris Mann and hardware hacking with Nicolas Collins. Her research interests include the relationship of sound and urban space, sound art, acoustic ecology, and experimental music.

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Shannon Mattern

Feb 172013

Shannon Mattern’s interest in sound began with her primary, secondary, and college careers as a musician; then, after graduate school, sound became a refrain in her research and teaching on mediated spaces. An Associate Professor in the School of Media Studies, she has written about architectural acoustics, sound history and politics, multimedia libraries and archives, multisensory art, and, with her colleague Barry Salmon, the history of “sound studies” at The New School. While nearly all of her courses — on media, architecture, and urban environments; media and materiality; and archives and libraries — have a sonic dimension, she occasionally teaches courses that are primarily about sound, including “Sound and Space” and “The City and Sound.” You can find her, along with all her publications and course syllabi, at wordsinspace.net

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John Roach

Feb 172013

John Roach is a Full Time Faculty member at Parsons in the School of Design Strategies. He is a studio artist with a penchant for working on sound-related issues across media. Many of his projects are collaborative in nature and he has worked on projects with composers, musicians, poets, computer programmers, sculptors, etc. His teaching at Parsons has run the gamut from two dimensional design to courses about collaborative art and design practices. In recent years his teaching has reflected his art practice in courses such as Sound Matters. You can see some of John’s work at Johnroach.net

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Vanished Sound: The Talking Pole of Willoughby Street

Feb 052013

If R. Murray Schafer has taught us anything, it’s that we should find sounds that we treasure in our environment and protect them if possible. His pioneering work in the World Soundscape Project drew our attention to the sounds of the natural world that were being replaced or drowned out by encroaching human infrastructure. This delicate balance, what he called the Acoustic Ecology was a rarely considered victim of our expanding human footprint.

I am not sure, however, what he might think of this particular example of an endangered, or more accurately extinct, element of the Brooklyn soundscape. I for one will miss this sound dearly. I am wrtiing about the mysteriously vibrating signpost, the Talking Pole of Willoughby Street in Fort Greene Brooklyn.*

*It’s worth mentioning that this name was entirely invented by myself.

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