The first Granoff Music Center Colloquium at Tufts University for the 2023-24 season features Michael Bierylo, an electronic musician, guitarist, composer and sound designer, on the topic "The Modular Synthesizer, An Improbable Instrument." Bierylo is a former faculty member at Berklee College of Music,  where he is chair emeritus of the Electronic Production and Design …

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The Tufts University Department of Music is hosting an interdisciplinary conference bringing together an international group of musicologists, literary scholars and historians to consider how poetry and music in early modern Europe creatively explored questions of living and dying well. The conference is co-organized by Julien Goeury (Université de Paris IV-Sorbonne) and Isabelle His (Université …

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The Tufts University Department of Music presents a roundtable discussion with Ghanaian percussionist Okyerema Asante featuring guests Michael Veal (Yale University), Ingrid Monson (Harvard University), Maya Cunningham (University of Massachusetts, Amherst) and Stephan Pennington (Tufts). This event is part of "Jazz Transnationalism and Intercultural Intersections Between Africans and African Americans," a two-week residency at Tufts …

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The Granoff Music Center Colloquium series at Tufts University features Samantha Jones of Harvard University on her research on musicality in percussive dance. Focusing on the non-competitive and social styles of Old-Style Irish Step and sean-nós dancing, she examines how musical and choreographic knowledge circulates through embodied modes of transmission. Oral mnemonics, hand gestures, notation …

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The Granoff Music Center Colloquium series at Tufts University features Joel LaRue Smith, senior lecturer in the Tufts Department of Music. He will speak on how the intersection of culture, theory and composition open our possibilities for freedom in performance. Through compositions and performance, Smith reveals how social and musical theories give inspiration to change, …

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The new semester's first Granoff Music Center Colloquium at Tufts University features SUNY-Albany assistant professor and ethnomusicologist Kyra Gaunt on the topic, "Uttered Silence: A Black Feminist Ethnomusicology as Care and Repair." Gaunt will speak on anti-Blackness and the particular f*ckery Black girls face online and in real life around twerking and voice. She is …

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The Granoff Music Center Colloquium at Tufts University presents University of Sheffield Professor of Musicology Tim Shephard discussing "Sounding the Bookshelf 1501: Music in a Year of Italian Printed Books.” Free; no tickets required. Due to university COVID regulations, live audience attendees at Tufts Music events must be prepared to present a Tufts ID or …

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The Granoff Music Center Colloquium at Tufts University presents Tufts faculty member and composer Kareem Roustom discussing, "Of Vertical and Linear Heritages: One Composer's Journey in (Some) Words and (Mostly) Music." Free; no tickets required. Due to university COVID regulations, live audience attendees at Tufts Music events must be prepared to present a Tufts ID …

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The Granoff Music Center Colloquium at Tufts University presents Tufts music professor Richard Jankowsky discussing his latest book, "Ambient Sufism: Ritual Niches and the Social Work of Musical Form," which examines ritual journeys shaped by music that reveal the contributions of women and underrepresented minorities to the North African musico-spiritual landscape. Free; no tickets required. …

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