IDEAS: Hearing Extremes

Ocean. Earth. Fire. Big Data. Extremes.

Based on ongoing collaborations with Falko Kuester of the UC San Diego Jacobs School of Engineering and Qualcomm Institute (QI), and Emily Chin and Josh Jones of Scripps Institution of Oceanography, the “Hearing Extremes” seminar provides an unusual opportunity for artists and scientists to develop interdisciplinary projects outside the walls of their respective departments, to think of the entire campus as a place for “great learning,” to reconsider what each participant’s role might be in regard to the collaboration and to create works that would not be possible without a fully integrated approach that reflects the knowledge, technology and global issues of our time. The seminar is taught by QI Research Artist in Residence and composer Lei Liang, winner of the prestigious 2021 Grawemeyer Award for Music Composition.

We invite you to enjoy works composed by students Marguerite Brown, Matthew Henson, Jiyoung Ko, Aaron Mencher, Delong Wang, Jacques Zafra and Theocharis Papatrechas, as performed by the award-winning Mivos Quartet (pictured below). Founded in 2008, the Mivos Quartet is devoted to performing the works of contemporary composers and presenting diverse new music to international audiences. They have performed and closely collaborated with an ever-expanding group of international composers representing a wide aesthetic range of contemporary composition.

Mivos Quartet’s residency is sponsored by the Dean of the UC San Diego Division of Arts & Humanities.