Department of Music Lecture: Anya Yermakova

Anya Yermakova, ACLS Emerging Voices Postdoctoral Fellow, 2022-24, Washington University in St. Louis

Abstract:
Presenting collaborative work with astrophysicists, with the Ocean Memory Project, and with her own research in non-classical logic, Anya Yermakova will introduce her compositional and improvisational tools as an evolution of making meaning in these collaborations. She will discuss somatics and bodies as a medium for sound making; "sculpting" of sounds that integrates acoustic, digital and found sounds; and the language of proto-rhythmicity for destabilizing logical normativity and for attentive listening.
 
Biography:
Anya Yermakova is a composer, sound artist, and a historian/philosopher of logic. In her body-centric methods, she employs acousmatic material, archival traces, and performance research, with the aim of enlivening the non-binary constructs beneath//above the forceful binarism in the world today. She holds a PhD from the departments of History of Science and of Critical Media Practice at Harvard, was previously a Visiting Assistant Professor of Sound at Oberlin College, an Artist-in-residence with the Ocean Memory Project, and is currently a postdoctoral fellow at the Center for Humanities at Washington University in St Louis.