Symposium and DJ Performance Saturday at Utah State University
Aram Sinnreich of Rutgers University is a presenter at USU's "Hip Hop and Technology Symposium" and has written extensively about music, media and technology.
A “Hip Hop and Technology Symposium” is scheduled Saturday, March 28, 1:30-5 p.m. at Utah State University. The symposium is presented by the Caine College of the Arts, and activities take place in FAV 150 in the Chase Fine Arts Center at the Logan campus.
Symposium topics include aesthetic, cultural and legal issues surrounding technology in hip hop. The symposium is organized by Tim Chenette, USU assistant professor of music theory, and is free and open to the public.
Symposium presenters include Aram Sinnreich, Mitchell Ohriner, Alexander Stewart and Larisa Kingston Mann.
Sinnreich (Rutgers University) has written about music, media and technology for The New York Times, Billboard and Wired and has testified as an expert witness in several cases, including the Supreme Court file sharing suit MGM vs. Grokster.
Ohriner (Shenandoah University Conservatory) received the Society for Music Theory’s 2013 Emerging Scholar Award for his publication “Grouping Hierarchy and Trajectories of Pacing in Performances of Chopin’s Mazurkas.” Since 2012 he has employed computational and statistical methods to analyze rhythm, meter, rhyme and flow in rap music.
Stewart (University of Vermont) has published articles on jazz, popular music and music of Latin America. In 2006-07, he was a Fullbright Scholar researching Afro-Mexican music and culture in Oaxaca, Mexico. As a saxophonist, he has played, recorded and toured with many leading figures in jazz and popular music.
Mann (New York University Steinhardt) has 20 years of experience as internationally touring DJ Ripley and event promoter. Her scholarly work focuses on exploring how marginalized and exploited communities survive and flourish, how they use music to assert and express themselves and how legal, social and business institutions interact with the goals and needs of marginalized people.
In conjunction with the symposium, there is a free “Museum and Music” performance featuring DJ Ripley in the Nora Eccles Harrison Museum of Art March 28 at 8 p.m.
For more information, visit the CCA Box Office in room L101 of the Chase Fine Arts Center on USU’s campus, call 435-797-8022 or see the college’s Production Services website.
Related links:
USU Department of Music
Writer and contact: Whitney Schulte, 435-797-9203, whitney.schulte@usu.edu
Mitchell Ohriner, Shenandoah University Conservatory, has employed computational and statistical methods to analyze rhythm, meter, rhyme and flow in rap music.
Alexander Stewart, University of Vermont, has published articles on jazz, popular music and music of Latin America.
Larisa Kingston Mann, New York University Steinhardt, has 20 years of experience as internationally touring DJ Ripley and event promoter.
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