This week, I enjoyed watching these two YouTube videos of my colleagues Jean-François Charles and Ryan Raul Bañagale performing musical works that stretch convention and the imagination. I'm always amazed by the creative talents that the "Class of Approximately 2011" possesses, in addition to, of course, their academic prowess.
Jean-François Charles is a composer, a clarinetist, and a live electronics designer. Ensemble Accroche Note commissioned his piece "Magma" and premiered it in Dresden in 2003. His work "Aqua" has been premiered in Florence in the French Institute and Consulate in 2004. Charles studied clarinet with Armand Angster at the Strasbourg Conservatory from 1999 to 2005. In 2003, he participated in the world premiere and recording of “Rechter Augenbrauentanz,” under the direction of the composer Karlheinz Stockhausen. He recently gave a five day seminar and workshop on "Spectral sound processing in real-time with Max/MSP/Jitter" at Sibelius Academy in Helsinki.
Ryan Raul Bañagale holds a BA in music and drama from The Colorado College (2000) and a MA in music history from the University of Washington (2004). Under the guidance of Professor Larry Starr, Ryan wrote a master's thesis that examines Asian-American representation in the music of George Gershwin. At Harvard, he plans to continue this expand this work to examine the role of early twentieth-century popular music in the formation of perceptions of race in the United States. Ryan has presented papers at the National Conference of the Society for American Music, the Popular Music Conference at the Experience Music Project, and the Pacific Northwest Regional Meeting of the American Musicological Society. His article, “You Are My Sunshine: The Recorded Lineage of an American Folk Song,” appeared in the journal Musicological Explorations. Ryan is currently a member on the AMS Committee on Cultural Diversity and the co-founder and editor of amusicology.com
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