Participants are invited to engage in an urgent and critical investigation of race, religion, sexual orientation, America and its status quo, celebrating Baldwin’s ideas and legacy through music and visual imagery, calling for Individual actions remotely executed in unison. Using the vernacular of a church service, structured rituals or worship, empowerment, and sacred practices inspire the gifts the project will offer each month for free. Each month, September–December 2020, these gifts—music, thoughts, meditations, and visual testimonies of resilience inspired by James Baldwin’s The Fire Next Time—can be accessed via www.TheGospelofJamesBaldwin.com.
ConcertCue (formerly NoteStream) is a mobile web application that streams synchronized program notes during a live musical performance. These program notes include text, images, and other rich media, precisely timed to important events in the music itself. The goal is to help audience members better appreciate and understand the music they hear.
Comusica is a participatory music experience that was unveiled as a centerpiece of the MIT virtual Commencement on May 29, 2020 at 1pm EDT.
To help foster the sense of community experienced during an on-campus commencement, Comusica features the voices of more than 800 MIT class of 2020 graduates and alumni, stitched together into one of the largest crowd-sourced pieces of music ever undertaken. The hundreds of video submissions were collected from students each singing a single note. To learn more about Comusica, follow the links provided below:
℗ 2019 BMOP/sound
Making It Up Together: The Art of Collective Improvisation in Balinese Music and Beyond (University of Chicago Press).
Recent compositions, performances, and arrangements.
