Category: Academia

This is a lecture/demonstration of a 1904 Edison Phonograph to students of the Technologies of Global Pop course at Lang College at The New School.  

I presented a research paper entitled, “Transparency, color, and liveness: An ethnographic study of the live sound engineering of Porgy and Bess on Broadway” at the International Association of Music Libraries, Archives and Documentation Centres (IAML) and International Musicological Society (IMS) Congress entitled Music Research in the Digital Age at Lincoln Center in New York…

I presented a research paper entitled, “Sonic Color and the Transparency of Live Music Production: Mixing Porgy & Bess on Broadway” at the International Association for the Study of Popular Music (IASPM) Canada conference at the University of Ottawa on May 29th. The following is the abstract for the paper: Sonic Color and the Transparency of…

On February 21, 2015, the world lost a great leader, social theorist, jazz artist, master of the trumpet and flugelhorn, my mentor and friend: Clark Terry. Terry bestowed upon music an unfading contribution, one that everyone should encounter in his masterful craft that has impacted popular culture for generations.  Each of us must critically engage…

  Columbia was well repesented in the panel discussion orgaized by Ethnomusicology PhD Student Whitney Slaten at the 2015 annual conference of the International Association for the Study of Popular Music (IASPM-US) in Louisville last week.  The title of the panel was “Representing Labor in Digital Media: Radio, Records and Live Performance” and it represented an extension…

I was invited to present a research paper entitled, “Faders, Engineers and Genres: Mixing Live Music in New York City” at the Oberlin Conservatory of Music, in association with the Africana Studies Department of Oberlin College. The following is an excerpt from the paper: “I have chosen to focus on the relatively inconspicuous social encounters between…