Da Lin (PhD 2017) will give a lecture titled "Labor and Value in a Transitional Political Economy: the Case of Kun Opera in China."

Composer Elizabeth Brown, who has played shakuhachi for more than 30 years, will talk about its deep influence on her music. She will perform her recent solo Dialect as well as a piece from the traditional solo repertoire, which sounds radical even today.

Visiting Scholar Zack Furness will give a lecture titled "'Protest and Survive': Punk Rock and Radical Politics."

Rachel Mundy will give a lecture titled “Sound Evaluation: Animals and the Measure of Musical Difference."

Gregory Booth will lecture on "Three Historical Conjunctures in the Music of the Hindi Cinema: What is Musical/Cultural Change and How Does it Work?"

This talk will provide an overview of my compositional practice. I will focus on the role of context, harmony, color  and large scale organization in my recent music and provide an overview of the tools, sketching practices and compositional process that inform my work.