People

These are just some of the people at the New School that identify with sound as part of their research, teaching or practice.

Andrea Ray

Andrea Ray

Andrea Ray is a Part-Time Faculty member at Parsons in the AMT Fine Arts Department. Working at the intersection of pre-recorded and real-time experience, Ray creates environments with sculpture, light and architecture from which voices are deciphered. Audio narratives are commonly deployed to instill a sense of presence and absence investigating issues of ill-perceived relations […]

Chris Mann

Chris Mann

language is the mechanism whereby you understand what i’m thinking better than i do (where i is defined by those changes for which i is required). www.theuse.info

Edward keller

Edward keller

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 […]

Jane Pirone

Jane Pirone

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 […]

Jim Briggs

Jim Briggs

Jim Briggs has been an audio engineer and sound designer for over 15 years.  He began his professional career in music recording at Manhattan’s legendary Hit Factory Recording Studios, and has gone on to mix programs for PRI’s Selected Shorts, PBS’ American Experience, WNYC/PRX’s Here’s The Thing and numerous other series on public radio and […]

Joan Schuman

Joan Schuman

Joan Schuman is Part-Time Assistant Professor since 2004 teaching sound studies courses in the MA Media Studies program (Radio Narratives, Sound Culture, Audio Experiments) and courses in creative radio, culture of podcasting, history of listening and the newly minted Media, Nature & Apocalypse in the BA program, New School for Public Engagement. Her radiophonic practice […]

John Roach

John Roach

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 […]

Josephine Holtzman

Josephine Holtzman

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, […]

Julie Napolin

Julie Napolin

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 […]

Kevin T. Allen

Kevin T. Allen

Kevin T. Allen is a filmmaker, sound artist, and independent radio producer whose work traverses museums, galleries, festivals, and conferences around the globe. He is increasingly fascinated with the territory that straddles ethnography and the avant-garde, disciplines that are both deeply immersed in “the other” and a thick approach to representation. His recent interest in acoustic archeology […]

Leigh Davis

Leigh Davis

Leigh Davis is an artist and educator.  Her work investigates the relationships between people and the physical spaces in which they live, work, and perform.  Leigh’s subjects span a broad range—from the men of a dying religious order, to women living in a YWCA residence hall, to a variety of performers (tap dancer, Michael Jackson […]

Sarah Montague

Sarah Montague, an adjunct faculty member of Eugene Lang College since 2002, has been an independent radio/audio producer for over twenty-five years. At the New School, she teaches courses in radio and audio aesthetics, radio documentary, radio drama, and sound design, and helped found the New School’s online radio station, newschoolradio.org (WNSR), for which she […]

Shannon Mattern

Shannon Mattern

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, […]

Todd Lambrix

Todd Lambrix

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 […]

Yeong Ran Kim

Yeong Ran Kim

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 […]