I am honored to be appointed to the USC Society of Fellows in the Humanities for the academic years 2025-7. The theme of this cohort is "Sites of Inquiry" and I will be working on my next book project, "Sound in Sacred Spaces."

USC's Musicology department at the Society for American Music conference, Tacoma. Presenters included Alison Maggart, James Delorey and Scott Spencer.

Maggart: Becoming-Immersed: Soundbaths
Delory: Meredith Willson’s Lost “O. O. McIntyre” Radio Suite
Spencer: Bagpipe Bands in Public Memorials

USC Music had a great presence at the Society for Ethnomusicology local chapter annual conference. Four papers and a featured presentation - 10% of the conference, and we don't even have an ethnomusicology program! Here are Maia, Aydin, Avery, Léon, Giulia and me-self at UCLA. Paper titles below.

I'm giving a talk today for the Museum of Newport Irish History - Monday Feb. 24 6ET/3PT. Topic: Traditional Music and Irish-American Identity at the Dawn of the Recording Age. www.NewportIrishHistory.org Come join via Zoom!

Soundscapes class: testing out acoustic spaces with various instruments to see how space changed performance practice and audience reception.

I'm honored to be giving a talk for the Museum of Newport Irish History on Feb. 24. Topic: Traditional Music and Irish-American Identity at the Dawn of the Recording Age. Come join via zoom! www.NewportIrishHistory.org

World Music class win: Cardin Chung (USC Dance) demonstrates a glove he developed, which translates motion and resistance to sound.

Modern technology worship rituals pt. 2: Siwen Xi sets them up and knocks them down. A comps defense in Music Teaching and Learning at USC.

#HBWALHS? (How Bad Would Adorno Lose His Shit?)

Modern technology worship rituals: The dissertation proposal defense.

Now THAT is a library! Bonus: owl-themed acroteria! (acroterae? acroterums?)

Repost: Here's a fun DH project. I have 150 world
music students do fieldwork papers 2x each semester. So I've been asking them to upload their info into a Scalar platform. It is still pretty rudimentary, but may be a fun tool for better understanding music in LA. scalar.usc.edu/works/world-mus...

Repost: New article: “Komitas, Folksong Collection and National Identity in Times of Great Change” (with Manuk Avedikyan). Yerevan State Conservatory After Komitas, keynote talk.

Repost: Presented “Capturing O’Neill” at the American Conference of Irish Studies #ACIS2023 on the future of Digital Humanities in our field. On the panel with Nicholas Wolf and Mairéad Byrne. Watch this space for more. #DigitalHumanities #IrishTraditionalMusic #Musicology #Ethnomusicology

New chapter in the book Remediating Sound: Repeatable Culture, YouTube and Music. “Meme and Variations: How Video Mashups of John Coltrane’s ‘Giant Steps’ Became a Thing.” Bringing ethnography to media research, to give the field of ethnomusicology some tools to deal with music and moving image.

A trip to the USC Special Collections for the Research Materials and Methods class. Music students in a candy store! Thanks to Andrew Justice for setting us up and guiding us through.

Catching up on posts: World Music class at its best! Thanks to Aarav and Tej for demonstrating tabla, thal, and dhol !

Thanks to Kazan Taiko for a great presentation and demonstration in World Music class recently! Ki-yah!

A musical whiplash day at USC! Tinikling (Philippine dance) demo in WM class with Maia Ruiz-Law, lecture on Sligo fiddling in NYC. Then a reimagining Ellington talk (colleagues McCurdy and Garcia Corona) and amazing concert with multiple student ensembles and arrangers and faculty collaborators.