Music

Ken Ueno

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.

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 achievements of a specific individual fused, inextricably, with that performer’s aura. His...

Mary Ann Smart

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.

Mary Ann Smart's research has focused on social dimensions of opera in nineteenth-century Europe. Her first book, Mimomania: Music and Gesture in Nineteenth-Century Opera(link is external) (2004), drew on textual sources (treatises on acting, staging manuals) and musical evidence to...

Kevin Simmonds

Musician and Writer
Kevin Simmonds gave a Visiting Writer Reading at the Arts Research Center in October 2021, part of the Fall 2021 Flash Reading Series.

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).

Kevin received a Fulbright fellowship to Singapore where he started the first-ever poetry workshop in Changi...

Kim Sauberlich

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.

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 official abolition of slavery. Rio was the only city in the history of modern empires...

T. Carlis Roberts

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.

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 composer, sound designer, and...

Amadeus Regucera

ARC Fellow
Amadeus Julian Regucera was an ARC Fellow in Spring 2012 – he was chosen in the Graduate Fellow category

The work of Amadeus Julian Regucera (b.1984, He/They) engages with the embodied and acoustical energy of sound and the erotics of its production through concert music, installation, performance art, and video. He has had the opportunity to present works around the world: notably, at ManiFeste (Paris, FR), the Festival Musica (Strasbourg, FR), Voix Nouvelles (Asnières-sur-Oise, FR), the Resonant Bodies Festival and the SONiC Festival (New York City), the Havana Festival...

Benjamin Piekut

Associate Professor of Music at Cornell University
Benjamin Piekut was a Visiting Scholar Panel Participant at the Amateurism Across the Arts Conference at the Arts Research Center on March 9, 2018.

Benjamin Piekut studied music and philosophy at Hampshire College before pursuing his M.A. in composition at Mills College, where he studied with Alvin Curran and Pauline Oliveros. After a stint in the critical studies/experimental practices program at the University of California, San Diego, he completed his Ph.D. in historical musicology at Columbia University. His first monograph,...

Tiffany Ng

ARC Fellow, Associate Professor of Carillon, and University Carillonist at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Tiffany Ng was an ARC Fellow in Spring 2014 – she was chosen in the Graduate category.

Tiffany Ng is an associate professor of carillon and university carillonist at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. An energetic advocate of diversity in contemporary music, she has premiered or revived over sixty pieces by emerging and established composers from Augusta Read Thomas to Yvette Janine Jackson, pioneered models for interactive “crowdsourced” carillon performances and environmental-data-driven sound installations with Greg Niemeyer, Chris Chafe, Ed Campion, Ken Goldberg,...

Aja Monet

ARC Fellow, Poet, Writer, Lyricist, and Activist
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...

Trịnh Thị Minh Hà

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...