Prof. Ricardo Miranda has been awarded an Ammerman Center Independent Scholarship/Fellowship. He is participating in the exhibition Future Perfect that is part of the The Sixteenth Biennial Symposium on Arts and Technology at Connecticut College. His work – “REALIDAD_VE” is an account of the current Venezuelan instability by retired musician and former director of the Venezuelan National Symophony.

Space as Material: An Evening of Spatial Sound Works

Tuesday, Feb. 20^th, 2018
7 PM Black Box (HN543)
8 PM TV Studio (HN436)

Two leading figures in the field of spatial sound come to Hunter College to create immersive, large-scale works. Sound is used to heighten listeners’ spatial awareness and encourage a focused listening practice from within an encompassing field. Both composers take a different approach to surround sound studio composition than the more typical one that attempts to represent “virtual” space and aims for transferability into a variety of settings, including the concert hall. Instead, Neumann’s and Schumacher’s pieces represent, not sound in space, but rather space in sound.

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