{"id":2976,"date":"2019-07-25T13:17:28","date_gmt":"2019-07-25T17:17:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/music\/?page_id=2976"},"modified":"2019-07-25T13:17:28","modified_gmt":"2019-07-25T17:17:28","slug":"asha-tamirisa","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/music\/asha-tamirisa\/","title":{"rendered":"Asha Tamirisa"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n
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Asha K. Tamirisa<\/h1>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t

Associate Professor of Music<\/h4>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t
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About<\/h3>\n\t\t\t\t\tAsha Tamirisa<\/b> (she\/her) is an artist and scholar whose work spans improvised sound performance, moving image and multimedia, and sound design.\r\n\r\nAs a performer, Tamirisa useds interactive digital technologies, analog modular synthesizers, and acoustic instruments in hybrid systems. She has performed at the ICA Boston, the Boston Museum of Science, Bitforms Gallery (NYC), for Nonevent\u2019s Waterworks Festival of Experimental Music, for Indexical\u2019s Digital Alchemy series, and at several community spaces.\r\n\r\nHer moving image and multimedia works engage the conditions and politics of metaphors, memory, and the overlooked. She has received support from The LEF Foundation Moving Image Fund, The Kitchen\u2019s L.A.B. Research Residency, the Media Archeology Lab Artist in Residence Program, Perte De Signal\u2019s Research-Creation Residency, I-Park Foundation Moving Image Artist in Residence Program, the Maine Arts Commission Media Arts Fellowship, and Le Laboratoire\u2019s ArtScience Converged Commission. Her work has been exhibited\/screened at The Portland Museum of Art, The Toledo Museum of Art, Connecticut College\u2019s Cummings Art Gallery, UnionDocs, Punto y Raya, WomanMade Gallery, and New Zealand International Film Festival.\r\n\r\nHer research on gender and sound has appeared in the the Feminist Review, Journal for Popular Music Studies, and in edited volumes including \u2018Modular Synthesis: Patching Machines and People\u201d (Routledge).\r\n\r\nBetween 2013-2017, Tamirisa was part of OPENSIGNAL, a collective organized around concerns for gender and race in electronic media practice. She is now part of PICNIC COLLECTIVE, a multidisciplinary and collaborative art endeavor that has received support from the Ellis Beauregard Foundation and SPACE Gallery\u2019s Kindling Fund.\r\n\r\nTamirisa holds a Ph.D. in Computer Music and Multimedia and an M.A. in Modern Culture and Media from Brown University, and has taught at Street Level Youth Media, Brown University, RISD, and Bates College, where she is currently an associate professor.\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t
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audiovisual art<\/a>, digital and electronic music<\/a>, experimental film<\/a>, experimental music<\/a>, feminist science and technology studies<\/a>, media histories<\/a>, media studies<\/a>, sound art<\/a>, sound studies<\/a>, video art<\/a><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t
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Current Courses<\/h3>

Fall Semester 2026<\/h4>
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This course focuses on the creative acts of recording and sound design. Technical topics covered include recording (both studio and experimental techniques), microphone placement, editing and mixing in REAPER (an open source software), effects and digital processing, and sound design for stereo and …<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>

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Beginning with a study of music cognition, the course proceeds with analysis and composition of metric and additive rhythms, modes, melodies, first and second species counterpoint, harmonic progressions, and musical form. The musical repertoire used includes popular and classical styles. The course …<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>

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An independent study program culminating in: a) an essay on a musical topic; b) an original composition accompanied by an essay on the work; or c) a recital accompanied by an essay devoted to analysis of works included in the recital. Students register for MUS 457 in the fall semester. Majors undert…<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div><\/section>\n\t\t\t\t\t

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