Translating Research into Music

This event is part of Dr. Julian Saporiti’s week-long Residency at UF. Click here to learn more about the residency, including the other activities that the week will entail.

Dr. Julian Saporiti’s work represents the consilience of the arts and sciences. UF will host Dr. Saporiti for a one-week multidisciplinary residency, including a special guest lecture at the Digital Worlds Institute.

This lecture will be about how to translate academic work into something actively consumed by the public - specifically, music. This will be followed by a panel on audio and sound design with Dr. Saporiti and Digital Worlds Faculty Angelos Barmpoutis and James Oliverio.

Refreshments will be provided.

Dr. Saporiti rose to national acclaim through his No-No Boy project, wherein he distilled the stories he captured as part of his dissertation research on Asian-American history into folk songs. This body of work has been released by the legendary Smithsonian Folkways label. More recently, he has taken his skill in translating research through music into ecology as the artist-in-residence at Hoyt Arboretum in Seattle, exploring what songwriting and plantlife can look like together. His unique approach in presenting research in unexpected and meaningful ways has gotten hundreds of thousands of people to engage with his work in ways that they would not have if he had solely presented his work in the traditional academic methods.

This presentation has been sponsored in part by the College of the Arts Creative B Summer Program in partnership with the Office of the Provost.

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