{"id":3383,"date":"2020-09-11T07:41:47","date_gmt":"2020-09-11T11:41:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/music\/?page_id=3383"},"modified":"2026-01-15T15:11:53","modified_gmt":"2026-01-15T20:11:53","slug":"brian-shankar-adler","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/music\/brian-shankar-adler\/","title":{"rendered":"Brian Shankar Adler"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-bates-directory-search-bates-profile bates-directory-profile _with-image _with-extended-info is-style-card\"><div class=\"_data-wrap\"><div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignleft size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/music\/files\/2024\/09\/BSA-by-Erika-Kapin.webp\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"900\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/music\/files\/2024\/09\/BSA-by-Erika-Kapin-600x900.webp\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5433\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/music\/files\/2024\/09\/BSA-by-Erika-Kapin-600x900.webp 600w, https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/music\/files\/2024\/09\/BSA-by-Erika-Kapin-200x300.webp 200w, https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/music\/files\/2024\/09\/BSA-by-Erika-Kapin-419x628.jpg 419w, https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/music\/files\/2024\/09\/BSA-by-Erika-Kapin.webp 653w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Autosave-File vom d-lab2\/3 der AgfaPhoto GmbH<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n<div class=\"bates-directory-single-listing bates-directory-card\"><p class='directory-result-name'>Brian S. Adler<\/p><div class='directory-result-contact-wrap'><p class='directory-result-email'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='mailto:badler@bates.edu'>badler@bates.edu<\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/p><p class='directory-result-departmentWithTitle'><span class='directory-result-title'>Instructor of Drum Set<\/span><br><span class='directory-result-department'>Music<\/span><br><a class='directory-result-phone' href='tel:207-786-8212'>207-786-8212<\/a><br><\/p><\/div>\n\t\t<\/div><\/div><div class=\"extended-content\"><br><br><p>Brian Shankar Adler is an interdisciplinary percussionist and composer. Described as &#8220;a polyrhythmic force\u2026 New York City gritty yet still somehow capable of evoking the delicacy of a summer breeze\u2026\u201d (JazzTimes), his work transcends the terrain between genre and geographic region. Adler&#8217;s research focuses on the perception of time, the communicative properties of gesture and the anthropogenic footprint on regional ecosystems. As an educator and performer, he is dedicated to bringing diverse global rhythmic traditions into conversation with contemporary improvisation and composition.<br><br><\/p><p><br><strong>Education<\/strong><br>MFA, Vermont College of Fine Arts<br>BM, New England Conservatory<br><br><strong>Links<\/strong><br><a href=\"https:\/\/brianshankaradler.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">personal website<\/a><\/p><\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":122,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_hide_ai_chatbot":false,"_ai_chatbot_style":"","associated_faculty":[],"_Page_Specific_Css":"","_bates_restrict_mod":false,"_batesModPostContentOverride_prepend":false,"_batesModPostContentOverride_append":false,"_batesModPostContentOverride_append_before_footer":false,"_table_of_contents_display":false,"_table_of_contents_location":"","_table_of_contents_disableSticky":false,"_is_featured":false,"footnotes":"","_bates_seo_meta_description":"","_bates_seo_block_robots":false,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_id":0,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_twitter_id":0,"_bates_seo_share_title":"","_bates_seo_canonical_overwrite":"","_bates_seo_twitter_template":""},"class_list":["post-3383","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/music\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3383","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/music\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/music\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/music\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/122"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/music\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3383"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/music\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3383\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5791,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/music\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3383\/revisions\/5791"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/music\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3383"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}