Lecture: George E. Lewis
Fri, Apr 02, 2010 starting at 5:00 PM - 7:00 PM
Lecture title: “Mobilitas Animi: Improvising with Creative Machines”
Friday, 2 April 2010 at 5:00pm
Lecture Hall
Free and open to the public
George E. Lewis is the Edwin H. Case Professor of American Music and the Director of the Center for Jazz Studies at Columbia University. The recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship in 2002, an Alpert Award in the Arts in 1999, and fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, he is a composer and improviser whose electronic and computer music, computer-based installations, and notated and improvisatory forms have been documented on more than 120 recordings. Lewis’s widely acclaimed book A Power Stronger Than Itself: The AACM and American Experimental Music (2008) was a 2009 recipient of the American Book Award.
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The graduate lecture series—Spheres of Interest: Experiments in Thinking & Action—is organized through SFAI’s Division of Graduate Studies in cooperation with SFAI’s Centers for Interdisciplinary Study.