Music Department Colloquium: Andrew Raffo Dewar—“Musical Experiments Between the Lines” [New Location]

Thursday, October 26, 2023 at 4:30pm
Boger Hall, Room 112, 41 Wyllys Avenue, Middletown

FREE!

Andrew Raffo Dewar will discuss several of his musical works that explore an area between the visual and aural, ethnography and composition, and science and art. Dewar will also discuss practical aspects of his career as an artist/scholar and academic/artist that may be useful for colloquium attendees’ future plans.

Dewar is Professor of Interdisciplinary Arts in the New College and the School of Music at the University of Alabama. He is a composer, soprano saxophonist, electronic musician, ethnomusicologist, and arts organizer. As an artist/scholar of experimental musics, his published work includes ethnographic research on avant-garde jazz, 1970s intermedia art in Argentina, 1960s electronic music group the Sonic Arts Union, and philosophical issues of ontology in performance and emerging music technologies, as well as a body of original music for his performing ensembles in the U.S. and Europe, music for film, compositions incorporating oral history, biofeedback, cybernetic feedback, and data sonification, and cross-disciplinary installations utilizing 3D spatial audio.