MUSICA PRACTICA / ELETTRONICA VIVA 2025

sound•conversation•performance•action•practice•music•voltage•audio
all events are free & open to the public unless otherwise noted
Thirty Glimpses of Voltaire



Tangent Universes
Carolyn Zaldivar Snow
Carolyn (she/her) is a writer and artist based in Baltimore, exploring sound and collective memory. Her installations repurpose obsolete technology—such as telephones, cassette players, and typewriters—into new vessels for digital soundscapes. Working under the project name Tangent Universes, Carolyn creates immersive sound environments using modular synths, guitar drones, noise boxes, field recordings, and hydrophones.


Middleear | Oído Medio

Juan Castrillón is a multimodal cultural anthropologist and ethnomusicologist with regional expertise in Turkey and the Northwest Amazon in Colombia. His research interests include theories of listening, media archives, contemporary healing arts, mimesis, and modalities of inscription. His work dialogues with contemporary debates about decoloniality, visual and sound/music cultures, and indigenous analytics of the person, space, magic, and technology.

8:00 PM
Wednesday, 30 April 2025
University of Pennsylvania
Department of Music
Lerner Ctr 101
201 South 34th St.
Philadelphia, PA 19104
Brìghde Chaimbeul
Artist Talk and Demonstration





















Brìghde Chaimbeul (Breech-huh Campbell) is a leading purveyor of celtic experimentalism and a master of the Scottish smallpipes; a bellows-blown, mellower cousin to the famous Highland bagpipes. A native Gaelic speaker, Brìghde roots her music in her language and culture. She rose to prominence as a prodigy of traditional music, but has since begun a journey to take the smallpipes into unchartered territory. She has devised a unique way or arranging for pipe music that emphasises the rich textural drones of the instrument; the constancy of sound that creates a trance-like atmosphere, played with enticing virtuosic liquidity. She draws inspiration from the world of interconnected piping traditions, but her most recent album brings in influence from ambient, avant garde and electronic music.

12:00 PM
Monday, 7 April 2025
The Arts Lounge at the Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts
3680 Walnut St, Philadelphia PA
Philadelphia, PA 19104
University of Pennsylvania

CONCERT
8PM
Ars Nova Workshop @ Solar Myth
1131 S. Broad Street
Philadelphia, PA
The above was made possible with the collaboration & support of:
The Sachs Program for Arts Innovation
University of Pennsylvania Department of Music
Ars Nova Workshop
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