Ethnomusicologist and Professor of Popular Music Studies at UC Berkeley
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Jocelyne Guilbault is an ethnomusicologist and popular music studies scholar teaching at Berkeley since 1999. From 1984 to 1998 Guilbault taught at the University of Ottawa. Her educational background includes bachelor’s and master’s degrees from the Université de Montréal in her native Quebec, Canada, and a Ph.D. from the University of Michigan.
Stressing a multidisciplinary approach, her research and teaching engages critical theoretical and methodological issues in ethnomusicology...
Eli Wirtschafter was an ARC Fellow in Spring 2012 – he was selected in the Undergraduate Fellow category. If you are interested in contacting this artist, please find them on their website.
Eli Wirtschafter is the Program Director for KALW's project in state prisons. We teach incarcerated people how to record and edit audio stories, and air them as part of the series Uncuffed.
Eli graduated from KALW's Audio Academy in 2016. He became KALW's transportation reporter, and also...
Sound Studies Scholar, Art Anthropologist, Curator and Practitioner in Sound Art
Adel-Jing Wang was a Visiting Artist Panel Participant at the Temporal Shifts Symposium at the Arts Research Center on February 1, 2013. If you are interested in contacting this artist, please find them on their website.
Based in Hangzhou, China, Adel-Jing Wang is a sound studies scholar, art anthropologist, curator and practitioner in sound art. She is currently an associate professor of sound studies at Zhejiang University, China and has also served as a visiting scholar at MIT Anthropology(2019-2020) andthe School of Creative Media at City University of Hong Kong (2017....
ARC Fellow, Composer, Vocalist, Sound Artist, and Professor of Composition at UC Berkeley
Ken Ueno was an ARC Fellow in Spring 2021 with the Poetry & the Senses initiative – he was chosen in the Faculty Fellow category. If you are interested in contacting this artist, please find them on their website.
Ken Ueno, is a composer, vocalist, improviser, and sound artist. His music celebrates artistic possibilities which are liberated through a Whitmanesque consideration of the embodied practice of unique musical personalities. Much of Ueno’s music is “person-specific” wherein the intricacies of performance practice is brought into focus in the technical...
Singer, Percussionist, Producer, Songwriter, and Music Arranger
Linda Tillery was a Visiting Artist Panel Participant at the The Old World in the New Conference at the Arts Research Center on August 28, 2006. If you are interested in contacting this artist, please find them on their website.
Linda Tillery first came to prominence as the lead singer in San Francisco group The Loading Zone from 1968 to 1969. She recorded her debut album for CBS Records, and worked as a studio musician through much of the 1970s, playing drums on albums by Santana, Mary Watkins, and Teresa Trull. She became a producer and staff artist at Olivia Records...
Henry Threadgill was the 2002-2003 ARC Artist-in-Residence. If you are interested in contacting this artist, please find them on their website.
Since the 1960s, Henry Threadgill has been on the leading edge of avant-garde jazz with his original compositions. He was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Music in 2016, one of only three jazz artists to win the prestigious award.
Threadgill grew up on the South Side of Chicago and first played percussion, then clarinet in the Englewood High School band before switching to saxophone at age 15. At 19, he joined ...
ARC Fellow, Musicologist, and Professor in the Department of Music at UC Berkeley
Mary Ann Smart was an ARC Fellow in Spring 2012 - she was chosen in the Faculty fellow category. If you are interested in contacting this artist, please find them on their website.
Kevin Simmonds gave a Visiting Writer Reading at the Arts Research Center in October 2021, part of the Fall 2021 Flash Reading Series. If you are interested in contacting this artist, please find them on their website.
Kevin Simmonds is a musician and writer originally from New Orleans. He studied music at Vanderbilt University, Middle Tennessee State University and completed the Ph.D. at the University of South Carolina. He founded Tono International Arts Association, an international arts presenter in northern Japan (Iwate Prefecture).
ARC Fellow Assistant Professor of Musicology at the College of Charleston
Kim Sauberlich was an ARC Fellow in Spring 2019 – she was chosen in the Graduate Fellow category. If you are interested in contacting this artist, please find them on their website.
Kim Sauberlich is an Atlantic Music scholar who focuses on the intersection of embodied performance and racialized knowledge production. Sauberlich's dissertation and book project entitled Black Orpheus: Musical Scenarios in Atlantic Rio de Janeiro (1808-1888) examines Atlantic performances in the city of Rio de Janeiro, from the 1808 transfer of the Portuguese court to Brazil’s 1888...
Artist, Scholar, and Assistant Professor of Critical Race and Ethnic Studies and Music at University of Denver
T. Carlis Roberts was a Visiting Scholar Panel Participant at the ARC Salon Series Performance and Conversation at the Arts Research Center on January 30, 2015. If you are interested in contacting this artist, please find them on their website.
T. Carlis Roberts (he/him) is an artist and scholar who engages sound as a tool for liberation. His professional work has straddled theater, music, film, television, dance, and performance art — each project driven by the desire to disrupt colonial structures and develop new vocabularies for expression. As a ...
