Kitchen Table Praxis: Recipes for Belonging in Electronic Music
Discussion 2: Bonnie Jones and Suzanne Thorpe On/In Collaboration

April 8, 2022

Though equity has modestly improved in technology-focused fields, striking inequities still remain. And in the realm of electronic music in particular, statistics still demonstrate a need to advocate for inclusivity. Indeed, electronic music’s many sub-genres still wrestle with toxic artifacts from military, cybernetic, and Western art music genealogies. In addition, diverse influences continue to struggle for legitimacy amid conditions that reify exclusion. In counterpoint, Kitchen Table Praxis: Recipes for Belonging in Electronic Music elevates a plurality of narratives and critical tactics, featuring them as ingredients that can ferment a sensibility of belonging, and possibly divergent trajectories, in technical fields.

Discussion 2: Bonnie Jones and Suzanne Thorpe On/In Collaboration

Bonnie Jones and Suzanne Thorpe discuss collaboration as a generative force and source of resistance in technical learning environments, music making, and social transformation. They will also perform in collaboration

Panelist
Bonnie Jones
Brown University

Panelist
Suzanne Thorpe
Columbia University