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Atlanta, GA | Posted: January 20, 2023
Michael Pearson
Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts
Summary Sentence:
The residency program seeks to provide an "arts-based, humanistic approach to using technology."
Full Summary:
The residency program seeks to provide an "arts-based, humanistic approach to using technology."
A series of six musicians and performers will have residencies at Georgia Tech through April.Six metro Atlanta musicians and performers will be working out of the Technology Square Research Building through April as part of a new STEAM musical residency program jointly hosted by the School of Literature, Media, and Communication and the School of Music.
The artists will each have two-week residencies culminating in a free workshop and performance open to the Georgia Tech community and the public, said Noura Howell, an LMC assistant professor. Howell is organizing the project in collaboration with Alexander Cohen, technical director in the School of Music, a unit of Georgia Tech’s College of Design.
“These workshops will approach science, technology, engineering, art, and math education from different angles, with the overarching goal to provide a more arts-based, humanistic approach to using technology,” Howell said.
The Performance Residencies in Electronic Music for Interdisciplinary Education Research (PREMIER) program is part of a growing emphasis on media arts in the School, which has long counted subjects such as film and performance art studies, new media, and creative approaches to literature among its competencies.
Studying the relationships among music, performance, and art can help unearth surprising connections that can help students across a variety of disciplines, both within the Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts and at other Georgia Tech units, Howell said.
For instance, in the first workshop, artists Majid Araim and Benjamin Shirley, known collaboratively as “Whispers of Night,” will work with participants in using geophones — microphones that go into the soil and collect sound samples.
“Listening to soil offers a new way of listening to and appreciating the world and the environment around us, offering a creative and hands-on way to explore more-than-human relations, a growing theoretical area of interest in the humanities in post-Anthropocentrism,” Howell said.
Other workshops will center on topics such as the process of creating music using sampled sound, synthesis, and intentionally short-circuiting old electronics to produce new and unexpected sounds.
Araim’s and Shirley’s residency has already started. Their workshop is scheduled for Jan. 27 in Room 175 of the West Village Dining Commons. They will perform Jan. 28 at the same location.
The other artists and their performance and workshop times are:
The residencies conclude April 21. More information about the artists and the residencies is available at the PREMIER website.
The program is funded through a GVU/Institute for People and Technology (IPaT) Engagement Grant and the Georgia Tech Research Institute (GTRI) through its STEM@GTRI program.
