74-4100 CBMR Research Studio

This course invites students to collaborate with the 2013-14 Center for Black Music Research (CBMR) Fellow Professor Fo Wilson, from the department of Art + Design. Her project, 100 Chairs (tentative title), is conceived as a sound installation that uses the symbology and presence of water as a way to connect communities to a shared humanity. Using environmental sounds and samples of recorded music researched at CBMR that reference water as a theme, she will be producing a large-scale contemporary sound installation within a praise house-like structure that mixes sound, video, music and spoken-word into a media rich experience that various audiences and communities can share. Students with experience in audio recording and acoustics, music and spoken word, video production and editing, woodworking and other construction are invited to join this course to make a collaborative multi-disciplinary work culminating in a public presentation.

3 Credits