{"664940":{"#nid":"664940","#data":{"type":"news","title":"LMC, School of Music to Host Musical Residencies","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ESix metro Atlanta musicians and performers will be working out of the Technology Square Research Building through April as part of a new STEAM musical residency program jointly hosted by the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.lmc.gatech.edu\u0022\u003ESchool of Literature, Media, and Communication\u003C\/a\u003E and the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/music.gatech.edu\u0022\u003ESchool of Music\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe artists will each have two-week residencies culminating in a free workshop and performance open to the Georgia Tech community and the public, said Noura Howell, an LMC assistant professor. Howell is organizing the project in collaboration with Alexander Cohen, technical director in the School of Music, a unit of Georgia Tech\u0026rsquo;s College of Design.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;These workshops will approach science, technology, engineering, art, and math education from different angles, with the overarching goal to provide a more arts-based, humanistic approach to using technology,\u0026rdquo; \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.lmc.gatech.edu\/people\/person\/noura-howell\u0022\u003EHowell\u003C\/a\u003E said.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe Performance Residencies in Electronic Music for Interdisciplinary Education Research (PREMIER) \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/sites.gatech.edu\/premier-music-residency\/\u0022\u003Eprogram\u003C\/a\u003E is part of a growing emphasis on media arts in the School, which has long counted subjects such as film and performance art studies, new media, and creative approaches to literature among its competencies.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EStudying the relationships among music, performance, and art can help unearth surprising connections that can help students across a variety of disciplines, both within the Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts and at other Georgia Tech units, Howell said.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EFor instance, in the first \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/iac.gatech.edu\/events\/item\/664924\/premier-music-tech-arts-workshop-whispers-night-majid-araim-benjamin\u0022\u003Eworkshop\u003C\/a\u003E, artists Majid Araim and Benjamin Shirley, known collaboratively as \u0026ldquo;Whispers of Night,\u0026rdquo; will work with participants in using geophones \u0026mdash; microphones that go into the soil and collect sound samples.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;Listening to soil offers a new way of listening to and appreciating the world and the environment around us, offering a creative and hands-on way to explore more-than-human relations, a growing theoretical area of interest in the humanities in post-Anthropocentrism,\u0026rdquo; Howell said.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EOther workshops will center on topics such as the process of creating music using sampled sound, synthesis, and intentionally short-circuiting old electronics to produce new and unexpected sounds.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EAraim\u0026rsquo;s and Shirley\u0026rsquo;s residency has already started. Their workshop is \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/iac.gatech.edu\/events\/item\/664924\/premier-music-tech-arts-workshop-whispers-night-majid-araim-benjamin\u0022\u003Escheduled \u003C\/a\u003Efor Jan. 27 in Room 175 of the West Village Dining Commons. They will \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/iac.gatech.edu\/events\/item\/664925\/premier-music-tech-arts-workshop-whispers-night-majid-araim-benjamin\u0022\u003Eperform \u003C\/a\u003EJan. 28 at the same location.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe other artists and their performance and workshop times are:\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cul\u003E\r\n\t\u003Cli\u003EDoctor Calico, a polymath musician and artist who built his own four-track home recording studio as a teenager and brings decades of experience as a performer, composer, producer, DJ, and artist. Workshop: Feb. 10 at 6 p.m.; performance Feb. 11 at 6 p.m.\u003C\/li\u003E\r\n\t\u003Cli\u003EWilliam Barrow, who repurposes old toys and tape recorders to create novel electronic instruments. Workshop, Feb. 24 at 5 p.m.; performance Feb. 25 at 6 p.m.\u003C\/li\u003E\r\n\t\u003Cli\u003EAdia Davina, a multidisciplinary artist, vocalist, playwright, and performer. Workshop March 31 at 4 p.m.; performance April 1 at 6 p.m.\u003C\/li\u003E\r\n\t\u003Cli\u003ERafiana, a multidisciplinary artist who creates works that span performance, music, film, and painting. Workshop April 23 at 6 p.m.; performance April 22 at 6 p,.m.\u003C\/li\u003E\r\n\u003C\/ul\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe residencies conclude April 21. More information about the artists and the residencies is available at the PREMIER \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/sites.gatech.edu\/premier-music-residency\/\u0022\u003Ewebsite\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe program is \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/research.gatech.edu\/gvu-ipat-research-and-engagement-grant-winners-announced\u0022\u003Efunded\u003C\/a\u003E through a GVU\/Institute for People and Technology (IPaT) Engagement Grant and the Georgia Tech Research Institute (GTRI) through its STEM@GTRI program.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThe residency program seeks to provide an \u0026quot;arts-based, humanistic approach to using technology.\u0026quot;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"The residency program seeks to provide an \u0022arts-based, humanistic approach to using technology.\u0022"}],"uid":"34600","created_gmt":"2023-01-20 20:28:07","changed_gmt":"2023-01-30 17:40:39","author":"mpearson34","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2023-01-20T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2023-01-20T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"664939":{"id":"664939","type":"image","title":"A series of six musicians and performers will have residencies at Georgia Tech through April.","body":null,"created":"1674246023","gmt_created":"2023-01-20 20:20:23","changed":"1674246023","gmt_changed":"2023-01-20 20:20:23","alt":"","file":{"fid":"251528","name":"musical residiency artists.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/musical%20residiency%20artists.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/musical%20residiency%20artists.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":398567,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/musical%20residiency%20artists.jpg?itok=LxCEn_p_"}}},"media_ids":["664939"],"related_files":{"52653":{"fid":"52653","name":"twz81073.flv","file_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/videos\/twz81073.flv","file_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/videos\/twz81073.flv","mime":"video\/x-flv","description":null}},"groups":[{"id":"1281","name":"Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts"},{"id":"1283","name":"School of Literature, Media, and Communication"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EMichael Pearson\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nIvan Allen College of Liberal Arts\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["michael.pearson@iac.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}