Please join us for:
DIASPORA SONGS
A concert and conversation with:
scholar/musician Dr. Julian Saporiti of No-No Boy (Smithsonian Folkways) and
poet/artist/musician Dao Strom (Fonograph Editions/Antiquated Future)
THURS, OCT 26 | 7PM
Urban Arts Space
The Ohio State University
50 W. Town Street, Suite 130
Columbus, OH
Free and open to the public
Through music, art, poetry, and scholarship, Dr. Julian Saporiti and Dao Strom have meaningfully explored concepts of diaspora and the broader meanings of migrant life. Their musical interventions expand the complex meanings of what “Americana” might look and sound like beyond popular notions.
NPR called No-No Boy's music "One of the most insurgent pieces of music you'll ever hear which re-examines americana with devastating effect...An act of revisionist subversion."
Wire wrote that “Dao Strom is a Vietnamese-American polymath…. The sounds are in an avant dream pop vein, with gentle vocals, acoustic guitar and electronics all burbling along like a Laurel Canyon brook filled with water of the universal subconscious.”
Saporiti and Strom will be staging a very special and rare collaboration especially for OSU/Columbus audiences, exploring where their respective ideas around music, memory, history, and diaspora overlap.
As part of the Sound Hall series, which was launched with support from Yale’s Public Humanities Initiative, this event continues a critical commitment to connecting the arts to the humanities while exploring the larger, deeper impacts of the humanities beyond the university.
Co-sponsored by the College of Arts and Sciences, the Office of Academic Affairs, the Global Arts + Humanities Discovery Theme, the Theory and Musicology Area of the School of Music, the Center for Ethnic Studies, Asian American Studies, the Humanities Institute, Comparative Studies, and Professor Barry Shank.
This event will be free and open to the general public. For additional information about the Sound Hall series, please visit www.soundhall.org
