The Brown University Department of Music presents guest artist and scholar Patricia Tang as part of the lecture-demonstration series “Women in Ethnomusicology & African Drumming.” Tang is Associate Professor at MIT and an ethnomusicologist specializing in West African music. She earned her PhD at Harvard, and she is an undergraduate alum of Brown. Tang’s current research focuses on the global circulation of African popular musics. The organizer of the series is Kwaku Kwaakye (Martin) Obeng who directs Brown’s Ghanaian Drumming & Dancing Ensemble and the World Music Ensemble. This event is free and open to the public.

Orchestra, Deconstructed is an interactive music exhibit featuring the works of living female composers. This exhibit is created by rehearsing with a full orchestra, and then recording musicians 1 by 1 and putting the recordings back together in a physical space, allowing audience participants to walk through this space and call upon the specific part in which the musician would have normally been playing. Creating a “deconstruction” of the traditional orchestra. This way, depending on how many people are walking through the space and how they’re interacting with the space, the exhibit will always sound different, and audience members get the experience of feeling like they’re a musician in the orchestra.

The exhibit will be in Fishman Studio (floor 4) at Granoff Center for the Creative Arts, and is open to the public 12-8pm on Thursday, March 24, and Friday, March 25.

Visit the event page for list of compositions and musicians featured in Orchestra, Deconstructed.

The Department of Music presents a screening of Amber Vistein’s opera-film Dark Exhalation Thursday, March 24 at 8pm in Martinos Auditorium at the Granoff Center for the Creative Arts. Vistein is a PhD candidate in Music & Multimedia Composition, and Dark Exhalation is her dissertation project. Visuals in the film were created by Ben Aron. Admission to this event is free and open to the public. A brief Q+A with the composer follows the film.

Learn more Amber Vistein and Dark Exhalation on the event page.

Jazz drummer/composer Allison Miller and her band Boom Tic Boom will present her new evening-length multimedia work, Rivers In Our Veins, on Friday, April 8th at 8:00 p.m. at the Granoff Center for the Arts at Brown University. In addition to her group of renowned jazz musicians, the concert will feature acclaimed tap dancer Claudia Rahardjanoto and video design by Brown University professor, Todd Winkler. Admission to this event is free, but space is limited. We recommend you reserve your seats.

Learn more about Allison Miller, Boom Tic Boom, and Rivers In Our Veins on the event page.