#  Sound as Knowledge 

 



####  calendar\_today Date and Time 

 **November 6, 2019** 

 05:30PM - 05:30PM EST 

####  pin\_drop Location 

 **Room 133, Barker Center**  



 

 



 

##    ![stylized rainbow sound bars](/sites/g/files/omnuum4936/files/styles/hwp_1_1__960x960_scale/public/mahindra/files/soundtext.jpg?itok=3ufwxgHu) 

 

**Speakers: Matthew Battles, Harvard University, Holly Melgard, City University of New York, and Peter McMurray, University of Cambridge**

 A roundtable with Holly Melgard, Matthew Battles, and others (tbc)

 **Matthew Battles**: Silence and Sight on the Far Side of the Moon

 Matthew Battles is a maker and thinker whose work merges literary, scholarly, and artistic forms of inquiry. His writing on the cultural dimensions of science and technology appears such venues as *The American Scholar*, *The Atlantic*, *Harper’s Magazine*, and *The New York Times*. His most recent book, *TREE*, was published by Bloomsbury in 2017. At metaLAB, Matthew advances an agenda of creative research exploring the dark abundance of collections in libraries and museums; technology’s impact on our experience of art, culture, and the natural world; and the conditions of culture and experience in the context of deep time.

 **Peter McMurray**: Sonic Agnosia: Towards Unknowing Sound

 Petter McMurray is University Lecturer in Ethnomusicology at University of Cambridge. He is currently completing a book and media project, *Pathways to God: The Islamic Acoustics of Turkish Berlin*. Other interests include audio ethnography, histories of sound recording (especially tape), oral poetry, and refugee sonic arts. He received his PhD in Music from Harvard with a Secondary Field in Critical Media Practice.

 **Holly Melgard**: Echochambermusic: Holly Melgard Reads Holly Melgard

 Holly Melgard is the author of the books *Poems for Baby* trilogy, *The Making of The Americans*, *Black Friday*, *Reimbursement* (Troll Thread), *Cats Can’t Taste Sugar* (Gaus PDF) and the chapbook *Catcall* (Ugly Duckling Presse). Along with Joey Yearous-Algozin, she has also co-authored *White Trash* (Troll Thread) and *Liquidation*. Having recently completed her PhD in the Buffalo Poetics Program, she is currently teaching writing at CUNY, freelance book designing, co-editing Troll Thread press, and living in Brooklyn, NY.





 

 



 

 See also:- [ Seminar ](/event-type/seminar)
- [ Sound/Text ](/seminars/soundtext)
 
 

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