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Material encounters, literal and figurative. The tangibility of art-making, of tools and instruments and their construction — physical, conceptual, cultural, in manuscript, media, and memory. Narratives created out of and coinciding with the material world.

Materials/Academic-ish

ChatGPT & me

Performer-scholar Noël Wan goes on an epistemological playdate with an AI chatbot.

August 16, 2023
Materials/Personal Reflection

Decolonizing myself, The Jungle Book, and Rudy, too

Writer/director Vijay M. Rajan details how working on an adaptation of The Jungle Book helped him reconcile code-switching as the material technique for the decolonization of his psychology.

November 16, 2022
Materials/Academic-ish

That’s “Dr. Swift” to you. A couple thoughts on degrees and monsters.

Doctoral student Ian Nutting discusses the scars that so many academics carry from the relentless, résumé-building mad scientist laboratory that is academia.

August 16, 2022
Materials/Academic-ish

Ten Black composers to program this year

In this robust and dynamic listicle, conductor Allegra Martin confronts the gap between “thought" and “action" in efforts to diversify Western art music.

January 24, 2022
Materials/Personal Reflection

Towards a materialist theology of music. And imploding universals.

Ian Nutting muses poetically and philosophically on the potential of music in our current society.

September 22, 2021

Writers

  • Editors

    Winter 2024: Media mélange
  • Ian Nutting

    “It already has”: Speed Racer and impossible hope
  • Noël Wan

    ChatGPT & me
  • Mona Sangesland

    Mapping the Nueva Canción Chilena
  • Andrew Bethke

    Vulgar academia: Why knowledge production needs a class war
  • Putu Tangkas Adi Hiranmayena

    Passing the mic from white middle-aged spiritual liberation to post-college travel utopia
  • Brandon Smith

    Living burnout in retrospect
  • Vijay Rajan

    Decolonizing myself, The Jungle Book, and Rudy, too

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