Music and Trauma: A Conversation in the Midst of Fire
(a preview of Theorizing Trauma and Disability in the Arts, Fall 2025)
Friday, February 7, 2025 at 4pm
Livestream: https://schoolofmusic.ucla.edu/school-of-music-live-streams/#lani-hall
Reception to follow in the Green Room
The entire community of the UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music is invited to gather for “Music and Trauma: A Conversation in the Midst of Fire.”
Scholars and performers from our community who are working on subjects related to music and trauma will offer thoughts and insights into their projects, as well as thoughts on how the recent (and ongoing) LA wildfires are affecting their research and practices. A public conversation and reception will follow.
In addition to remarks and contributions from scholars, this event will also feature two interactive sound installations-in-progress: “Xenakis Clouds (A Study of Trauma in the Midst of Fire)” by Jenny Olivia Johnson and Daniela Rivera, and “The La Monte Young Barbie Dreamhouse” by Ashley Dao ‘24 and Jenny Olivia Johnson. These installations are being designed especially for the conference “Theorizing Trauma and Disability in the Arts,” sponsored by the Center for Musical Humanities, now postponed to Fall 2025.
This preview event will allow us to come together as an artistic and intellectual community, to share ideas, support one another’s work, and provide mutual strength in these challenging times.
This program is made possible by the Joyce S. and Robert U. Nelson Fund. Robert Uriel Nelson was a revered musicologist and music professor at UCLA, who, together with his wife, established a generous endowment for the university to make programs like this possible.