Christopher Cerrone will discuss his recent work which takes direct inspiration from specific personal locations including a Brooklyn subway station, the light in Los Angeles, his childhood home in suburban New York, the Umbrian mountains, and the rural midwest. In these works, those places are transformed into a new musical language both directly through field recordings and indirectly by the creation of a musical language that transforms specific resonance and acoustics through processes of orchestration, technology, and reverb.

Cerrone is the Samuel Barber Rome Prize Fellow in Musical Composition. You can watch this event live at https://livestream.com/accounts/7688224/events/4445783.