Our own music department faculty has won a number of grants from the Faculty in the Fine Arts, Humanities and lettered Social Sciences supporting their creative projects and endeavors this year!
Nirmali Fenn and Judith Lochhead received support for “Music’s Sensorium: seeing with our ears.” Fenn and Lochhead will be collaborating over the summer on a project for which Fenn is composing a chamber work, We’re all entangled, for alto flute, violin, cello and percussion which explores the intermodality of bodily perception of musical sound. This work will be performed at the New Music for Strings Festival in Aarhus, Denmark on 27 August 2023. Earlier that day, Lochhead and Fenn will deliver a lecture “Music’s Sensorium: seeing with our ears.”
Associate professor of music Benjamin Tausig has been awarded a FAHSS grant for publication of a Thai-language translation of his 2019 book Bangkok Is Ringing: Sound, Protest, and Constraint. This book, which was the winner of the 2020 British Forum for Ethnomusicology Book First-Prize, has been compelling to contemporary Thais involved in ongoing social movements in that country. Bangkok-based publisher Soi Press has arranged a translation of Bangkok Is Ringing, and FAHSS funds will be used for copyright costs, cover design, and printing fees for an affordable Thai-language edition of the book for sale in Thailand in the coming months.
