Live Fieldwork in Astromusicology

This concert is free and open to the public.

Ritwik Banerji is an experimental ethnographer, interactive media artist, and improviser. He is currently an assistant professor of anthropology at Iowa State University. His scholarship appears in Jazz and Culture, Anthropology in Action, Jazz Perspectives, The Oxford Handbook of the Phenomenology of Music Cultures, and Proceedings of the International Computer Music Conference, among other venues. As an artist, Banerji has presented installations and live performances of his improvised and composed work at the Chicago Asian American Jazz Festival, Khoj International Artist Studios (New Delhi), Experimental Intermedia (New York), MOXSonic, and Ausland (Berlin). He has worked with a broad range of collaborators, including Tony Malaby, JayVe Montgomery, Ben Lamar Gay, Liz Allbee, Theresa Wong, Tritha Sinha, Paula Matthusen, and Axel Dörner, among others.