In The News
The Warehouse, a new lab for sonic art, has opened at 4 Currier Place.
Sonic arts professor Ash Fure stands in front of bleachers in the new lab space at 4 Currier. (Photo By Katie Lenhart)
Read the article "metallic ceiling tops fully reconfigurable venue by T+E+A+M. and stock-a-studio in the US":
Read the article "Sound And Design Intersect In A New Facility For Dartmouth":
https://interiordesign.net/projects/dartmouth-college-the-warehouse-for-sonic-practice
Read the article "New Sonic Practice MFA Program Is a 'Game Changer'":
https://home.dartmouth.edu/news/2024/10/new-sonic-practice-mfa-program-game-changer
The music department Music Now! concert series presents egg by César Alvarez (Sonic Practice faculty) and Emily Orling
egg is a theatrical staging of César's album alongside live ceramics by Emily Orling. This performative salad of sound, poetics, anecdotes, and real-time collaboration calls up unthinkable thoughts about creative kinship, small-town futurism, trans-middle age, mediocre parenting, and the ancient unreliable religion of art-making.
Sonic Practice Students, Albert Zhang and Beccy Abraham, Recently Won "Best Music / Art Installation Award" At NIME 2024 (as part of The Double Yolk Collective) For Their Performance "A Thousand Mornings".
"In A Thousand Mornings, a diverse team of very talented students is using simple but effective technology to apply interpersonal touch paired with expressive and well thought out mappings resulting in a touching and moving performance, beautifully yet subtly composed and executed." - Palle Dahlstedt, Music/installation co-chair NIME 2024
Read the article "Choreographing Sound: Co-creating Music and Movement through Touch with the Magical Musical Mat":
https://www.nime.org/proc/nime2024_94/index.html
View a performance of their work: https://vimeo.com/1006089461/b25ebc4f65
Recent Performances of Works by Sonic Practice Technical Director/Lecturer, Bethany Younge.
1/17/25 - LUX:NM performs Younge's Undergrowth / Polka at the Ultraschall Berlin 2025 Festival
2/1/25 - Performance of "Reactivated Anatomies" at The Warehouse"Reactivated Anatomies" at The Warehouse featuring Anaïs Maviel, Charlotte Munday, Charles Peoples III, and Jennifer Torrence
2/4/25 - Tak Ensemble performs Younge's At Midnight I walked into the middle of the desert at Project Arts Centre in Dublin
5/31/25 - Tak Ensemble performs Younge's At Midnight I walked into the middle of the desert at Center for Performance Research in Brooklyn, NY
Sonic Practice student, Rodrigo Martinez Torres' collaboration with the Dartmouth Wind Ensemble has been released.
Listen to "Onda tropical" - Rodrigo Martinez, La Coreañera, DCWE, Brian Messier:
https://rodrigomt.bandcamp.com/track/onda-tropical-i-rebajado