Music

Melanie Gudesblatt

Spring 2016 Graudate Fellow
Melanie Gudesblatt was an ARC Fellow in Spring 2016 – she was chosen in the Graduate Fellow category. If you are interested in contacting this artist, please find them on their website.

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...

John Gromada

2008-2009 Artist-in-Residence
John Gromada was the 2008-2009 Artist-in-Residence at the Arts Research Center. If you are interested in contacting this artist, please find them on their website.

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...

John Granzow

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. If you are interested in contacting this artist, please find them on their website.

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...

Rama Gottfried

2014 ARC Fellow
Rama Gottfried was an ARC Fellow in Spring 2014 – he was chosen in the Graduate Fellow category. If you are interested in contacting this artist, please find them on their website.

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...

Philip Glass

Pianist, Composer
Philip Glass was a Visiting Lecturer Panel Participant at the Re-staging / Re-construction / Re-enactment Symposium at the Arts Research Center on August 13, 2012. If you are interested in contacting this artist, please find them on their website. Through his operas, his symphonies, his compositions for his own ensemble, and his wide-ranging collaborations with artists ranging from Twyla Tharp to Allen Ginsberg, Leonard Cohen to...

Robert Fink

Professor of Musicology and Humanities at UCLA
Robert Fink was a Visiting Lecturer Panel Participant at the Re-staging / Re-construction / Re-enactment Symposium at the Arts Research Center on August 13, 2012. If you are interested in contacting this artist, please find them on their website.

Robert Fink is Professor of Musicology and Chair of Music Industry Programs at UCLA, and serves as Associate Dean for Academic Affairs in the Alpert School of Music. Trained as a music theorist and musicologist, his primary areas of interest include musical analysis, avant-garde and minimal music, popular music studies,...

Lars Mørch Finborud

Art Historian, Former Curator at Henie-Onstad Art Centre, Record Label Owner
Lars Mørch Finborud was a Visiting Lecturer Panel Participant at the Nordic Time Zones Conference at the Arts Research Center on March 26, 2014.

Lars Mørch Finborud (1980, Oslo) is an art historian and worked as a curator at Henie-Onstad Art Centre from 2008-2018. Finborud runs the record labels Plastic Strip Press and O. Gudmundsen Minde...

Fantastic Negrito

Singer-Songwriter of Blues, R&B, and Roots
Fantastic Negrito was a Visiting Artist Panel Participant at the Urban Ghosts Symposium at the Arts Research Center on January 17, 2017. If you are interested in contacting this artist, please find them on their website.

Part love story, part historical excavation, Fantastic Negrito’s extraordinary new album, White Jesus Black Problems, is an exhilarating ode to the power of family and the enduring resilience of our shared humanity. Inspired by the illegal, interracial romance of his seventh generation grandparents—a white indentured servant and an enslaved Black...

Moy Eng

Poet, Vocalist, and Leader of the Community Arts Stabilization Trust
Moy Eng was a Visiting Lecturer Panel Participant at the Urban Ghosts Symposium at the Arts Research Center on January 17, 2017. If you are interested in contacting this artist, please find them on their website.

Moy Eng leads Community Arts Stabilization Trust (CAST), a community centered real estate organization for the arts. In deep partnerships with community, CAST invests and stewards affordable housing and workspaces across the San Francisco Bay Area. Launched in 2013, CAST has acquired and invested in six arts buildings in San Francisco, Oakland and San Jose,...

Jeff Davis

University Carillonist
Jeff Davis was a Visiting Lecturer Panel Participant at the made@berkeley Symposium at the Arts Research Center on April 15, 2016. If you are interested in contacting this artist, please find them on their website.

Jeff Davis, renowned as the University Carillonist at UC Berkeley, retired in 2024 after a distinguished career spanning over three decades. Throughout his tenure, Davis presided over Berkeley's iconic Campanile, home to one of the world's foremost carillons comprising 61 bells. He joined UC Berkeley in 1983, initially supporting the music department with his...