Music

Alexandro Segade

Interdisciplinary Artist & Assistant Professor of Art at UCSD

Xandro Segade is an interdisciplinary artist whose queer world-building projects propose speculative group identities. Often working in collectives, Segade makes spaces for critical play, using collaboration to complicate utopian impulses with radical ambivalence. Segade’s practice traces connections across performance, writing and drawing, making video, installation, theater, sculpture, music, costumes and comics that defy genre distinctions, subverting contextual frameworks, disrupting the political imagination.

Segade’s multimedia science fiction performance...

Salon: Ed Campion

November 7, 2011
We had the opportunity to hold another ARC Salon to celebrate the work of UCB faculty composer, Ed Campion, when Cal Performances featured the performance of his work by the stunning Paris-based group Ensemble Zellig. Ed is a leader in the fields of electronic and digital music composition, crafting what are not so much “scores” but alternate “systems” for composing, calibrating, integrating, and synthesizing musical and sonic forms. Cal Performances director, Matías Tarnalpolsky, joined us for a pre-show talk and a post-show reception to help us think about the beauty of Campion’s work...

Jocelyne Guilbault

Ethnomusicologist and Professor of Popular Music Studies at UC Berkeley

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 and popular music studies. She locates these issues in the scholarly intersections...

Nordic Time Zones: Time-based art across disciplines in the Northern Landscape

March 26, 2014
Nordic Time Zones Time-based art across disciplines in the Northern Landscape
 Wednesday, March 26, 2014 Henie Onstad Kunstsenter, Oslo

(Closed roundtable, by invitation only)

Everardo (Ever) Reyes

2023/24 ARC Fellow - Indigenous Poetics Lab

Everardo (Ever) Reyes (he / him & Rarámuri descent and Chicanx) is a Ph.D. candidate in Ethnomusicology. He is a multi-instrumental musician and songwriter who enjoys the possibilities that improvisation provides. His research focuses on the intersections between music, social movements, and Indigenous self-determination. Ever is also a co-creator of the Indigenous Sound Studies working group, which is supported by the Center of Race and Gender and the University of California Berkeley.

What Gets Amplified

November 13, 2023
What Gets Amplified with Raven Chacon
Composer November 13, 2023 5:00 — 6:30 PM Arts Research Center (Hearst Field Annex, D23)

Event hosted by BCNM. You can find the original event page on their website here.

Raven Chacon will discuss his recent works, using scores and field recordings as the medium for...

Tarek Atoui: “DeafSpace and Making Musical Instruments”

March 9, 2015
DeafSpace and Making Musical Instruments with Tarek Atoui Art, Technology, and Culture Colloquium
March 9, 2015, 7:30-9:00pm
The David Brower Center, Berkeley CA

Lectures are free and open to the public. Co-presented with the MATRIX program at the Berkeley Art Museum.

Reserve your ticket here.

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John Perry Barlow: “The Death Throes of the Desert God”

September 8, 2014
The Death Throes of the Desert God with John Perry Barlow Art, Technology, and Culture Colloquium
September 8, 2014, 7:30-9:00pm
The David Brower Center, Berkeley CA

Watch the recording here!

Launch of “Amateurism”

November 12, 2019
Launch of “Amateurism” | Third Text Special Issue With remarks by Abigail De Kosnik and Anneka Lenssen Tuesday, November 12, 2019
5:00-7:00pm
Beta Lounge (rsvp to lauren.pearson@berkeley.edu)

Amateurism Across the Arts

March 9, 2018
Amateurism Across the Arts Conference Friday, March 9, 2018, 9:30am-6:15pm Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology Amateurism Across the Arts is an exploration of vernacular, popular, fannish, kitsch, informal, self-taught, user-generated, and DIY production in music, architecture, literature, the visual arts, dance, and new media– especially in relation to raced, classed, and gendered notions of value. How do the implicitly skilled “arts” rupture and reorganize themselves around hierarchies of taste? And how can critical...