Aja Monet was a Poetry & the Senses Fellow in Spring 2021.
Born in New York City to parents of Cuban and Jamaican descent and raised in the Brooklyn neighborhood of East New York, Aja Monet Bacquie began writing poems when she was eight or nine years old. While attending Baruch College Campus High School, she performed spoken-word for school talent shows. Around this time, Monet joined Urban Word NYC—a non-profit organization that offers guidance and public platforms to young writers, particularly those of color—and became a part of a community of aspiring urban...
Filmmaker, Writer, Literary Theorist, Composer, and Distinguished Professor of the Graduate School in Gender & Women's Studies and Rhetoric at UC Berkeley
Trịnh Thị Minh Hà was a Affiliated Faculty Panel Participant at the Curating People Symposium at the Arts Research Center on April 28, 2011.
Originally trained as a musical composer, who received her two masters and Ph.D. from University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana, Trịnh Thị Minh Hà is a world-renowned independent filmmaker and feminist, post-colonial theorist. She teaches courses that focus on women’s work as related to cultural politics, post-coloniality, contemporary critical theory and the arts. She has also taught at Harvard, Smith, Cornell, San Francisco State...
Avant-garde Jazz Pianist, Composer, and Professor of Composition and Improvisational Practices at UC Berkeley
Myra Melford gave an Affiliated Faculty Performance and Conversation at the Arts Research Center on January 30, 2015.
For nearly two decades, as a Professor of Composition and Improvisational Practices at UC Berkeley, Myra Melford has pursued a philosophy that honors jazz and new-music traditions while emphasizing emerging developments in musical technique, theory, technology and performance.
The pianist, composer, bandleader and professor Myra Melford—whom the New Yorker called “a stalwart of the new-jazz movement”—has spent the last three decades making original...
ARC Artist-in-Residence, Cellist, Composer, Arranger, Improviser, and Former Member of the Kronos Quartet
Joan Jeanrenaud was an ARC artist-in-residence from 2008 to 2009.
Joan Jeanrenaud is a cellist, composer, arranger, and improviser. She was the cellist of the Kronos Quartet for 20 years. Her work with Kronos included more than 30 recordings and over 2000 performances that took her to virtually every major concert hall worldwide. During those years the group became, in the words of The New York Times critic John Rockwell, "the world's best known, most innovative contemporary-music quartet." Jeanrenaud's cello is a Deconet, ca. 1750. A copy of that cello was...
Yenting Hsu was a Visiting Artist Panel Participant at the Temporal Shifts Symposium at the Arts Research Center on February 1, 2013.
Using sound as primary creation medium, Yenting Hsu investigates the cultural context and texture of sounds. Her works often reflect the relationship between sounds, environment, individual and/or collective memories and emotions. Interweaving field recordings with electronic sounds and objects, Hsu keeps exploring and experimenting documentary and fiction / narrative and imaginary elements of recorded sounds. Mixing with other art...
Bracken Hanuse Corlett gave a Visiting Artist Talk at the Arts Research Center in Fall 2024, alongside F2024 ARC Artist-in-Residence, Amanda Strong.
Bracken Hanuse Corlett is an interdisciplinary artist hailing from the Wuikinuxv and Klahoose Nations. He began working in theatre and performance in 2001 and eventually transitioned towards his current practice that fuses painting and drawing with digital-media, audio-visual performance, animation and narrative. He is a graduate of the En’owkin Centre of Indigenous Art and went to Emily Carr University of Art and Design for...
Melanie Gudesblatt was an ARC Fellow in Spring 2016 – she was chosen in the Graduate Fellow category.
Melanie Gudesblatt is a Lecturer in Music History and Literature at the San Francisco Conservatory, having received her Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley in 2019. Before coming to Berkeley, she earned an M.Mus. from King’s College London (2012) and a B.A. in Music from Cornell University (2009). Her research examines the relationship between vocal sound and metaphorical conceptions of voice around 1900, with special focus on how Euro-American listening...
John Gromada was the 2008-2009 Artist-in-Residence at the Arts Research Center.
John Gromada is a multi-award winning, pioneering sound designer and composer, with a career spannning more than three decades. He has composed scores for 40+ critically acclaimed Broadway productions and hundreds off- Broadway and at major regional theatres across the nation and abroad. Highly sought as a collaborator for sound designs that combine original music, abstract sound, and found music to support detailed narratives, Gromada was nominated for a Tony Award for his score and sound...
Chair of Performing Arts Technology & Associate Professor of Music at University of Michigan
John Granzow was a Visiting Artist Panel Participant at the made@berkeley Symposium at the Arts Research Center on April 15, 2016.
John Granzow applies the latest manufacturing methods to both scientific and musical instrument design. After completing a masters of science in psychoacoustics, he attended Stanford University for his PhD in computer-based music theory and acoustics. Granzow started and instructed the 3d Printing for Acoustics workshop at the Centre for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics. He attended residencies at the Banff Centre and the Cité...
Rama Gottfried was an ARC Fellow in Spring 2014 – he was chosen in the Graduate Fellow category.
Rama Gottfried's recent works aim to increase our sensitivity to the web of relations that connect humans and the other animate and inanimate entities that surround us. His pieces are conceived as scenographic worlds — bodies with voices that move and interact in physical and immaterial environments, constructed from the medias of acoustic and electronic instrumental performance, puppet-, object-, material-theater, live-cinema, and the site-specific performance context. Brought...
