Sound Walk and Lecture with L.A. Multimedia Artist Alan Nakagawa

Alan Nakagawa

L.A. Multimedia Artist

Alan Nakagawa is an interdisciplinary artist with archiving tendencies, primarily working with sound, often incorporating various media and working with communities and their histories. He has created a series of Invisible Architecture experiences that are mash ups of the recorded acoustics of historical sites, giving new context to historic places through a contemporary lens of sound. Nakagawa is currently the Artist-in-residence for two institutions. 1) Kaya Press at the University of Southern California, a small literary publication focusing on Asian and Pacific Islander American and Diasporic literature celebrating its 30th Anniversary and 2) the Gerth Archives, California State University Dominguez Hills assigned to the National Coalition for Redress and Reparations collections, which consists of materials pertaining to the campaign that led to the Civil Liberties Act of 1988. His first book, “A.I.R.Head: Anatomy of an Artist in Residence” was published in January 2023 by Writ-Large Press. It maps his artistic trajectory that led to his nine Artist-in-residencies in six years.

AJ Kluth

Lecturer

CWRU Department of Music

AJ Kluth is a musicologist with interdisciplinary interests in music and philosophy. Primarily concerned with music after 1950, his teaching and research focus on experimentalisms, popular music, and aesthetics. His publications appear in the Journal of Jazz Studies, The International Journal of New Media, Technology, and the Arts, and DownBeat Magazine and he has presented research at conferences throughout the United States, UK, and Europe. As a saxophonist he has worked in American and European scenes and has been a teaching artist for the Herbie Hancock Institute of Jazz.