Sonic Intimacies of the Western Indian Ocean

This talk presents new ethnographic media art by composer Elizabeth Hoffman and ethnomusicologist Andrew Eisenberg. The work centers on a creative experiment involving musicians from different parts of the western Indian Ocean. Documenting and reflecting on these sometimes tedious, often joyful processes of composing, translating, and performing, Sonic Intimacies of the Indian Ocean explores the materiality of language, the im/possibilities of translation, and the joys of cultural sharing and appropriation in the porous contact zones of the Indian Ocean world.

Speakers

• Elizabeth Hoffman, Professor of Music, NYU; 19 WSN Faculty Fellow, NYUAD
• Andrew Eisenberg, Associate Professor of Music and 19 WSN Faculty Fellow, NYUAD

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