Liberatory Practice Lab: Engaging Sounds in Community

Catalog description

This course is an incubator for new musical practices grounded in the cultivation of community. Learning from live performances, workshops, and archival texts by Black and queer feminist, Indigenous, and disability-culture activists, participants will deepen their understandings of their personal musical practices and backgrounds and imagine new ways of relating through sound. The course will center on a series of gatherings shaped in partnership with guest artists and local community organizations. Each participant will develop original sound-based experiences (compositions, guided meditations, or other participatory happenings) for these gatherings, supporting their classmates' initiatives as collaborative listeners and soundmakers. Participants with backgrounds in any sound-based practices are welcome. No prior experience in composition is necessary. Students who wish to enroll are asked to fill out a brief questionnaire [[https://forms.gle/hw8NVG6ksMdMGuak7].