On Saturday, January 21, I'll be taking part in a panel discussion with David Behrman, Andrew Raffo Dewar, Chris Madak, and Kenneth Goldsmith, preceding a performance of Behrman's composition "My Dear Siegfried." My contribution will focus on the role of musical technologies in the experimental tradition.

This event is part of the Sonic Arts Union Retrospective, a series of concerts and talks exploring the legacy of the late 60s-early 70s experimental music collective consisting of David Behrman, Alvin Lucier, Gordon Mumma, and Robert Ashley. It's presented by International House Philadelphia.

My paper "Electric Music of the Spheres: Jörg Mager’s Technologies of Enchantment" was presented at the annual meeting of the American Musicological Society in San Francisco last month. This was a condensed version of one of my dissertation chapters on Mager, a pioneering inventor of early electronic instruments in Weimar Republic Germany. Thanks to AMS for allowing my paper to be presented in absentia and to Jeff Kallberg for volunteering to read it.