June 16-18: Dinosaur Performances with Courtney Brown

The Sound Studies Institute would like to highlight a few upcoming performances by the sound artist, researcher, computer engineer, and tango dancer, Courtney Brown.

Courtney Brown at Now Hear This festival

June 16, 2023
7:30 pm

at Co*Lab performance space

A room-filling performance/ installation from immersive drone artist Ethan Bokma, and an incredible performance by Courtney Brown using dinosaur skulls!
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The Sounds of Nature
at the Royal Alberta Museum

Saturday, June 17
2:00 pm
Ever heard music from a dinosaur? Check out Courtney Brown and Cezary Gajewski as they play a musical piece featuring sounds from a Corythosaurus skull! Learn how their research recreated the sounds of an ancient hadrosaur (duck-billed dinosaur). You may even get to experience roaring like a Corythosaurus yourself!

Sunday, June 18
2:00 pm
In case you missed it, feature presenters Courtney Brown and Cezary Gajewski will return for a second presentation of their Corythosaurus skull sounds and research. Hear the voice of an ancient hadrosaur!

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You can also check out the guest lecture Courtney gave at SSI last year on our youtube channel: Becoming a Hadrosaur: Musical Instruments as a Window into Natural History

Courtney Brown is a composer/performer, software developer, and tango dancer. She creates new musical interfaces in which the act of creating sound is transformative in some way. People become dinosaurs by blowing into a hadrosaur skull, creating their own roar. Social dancers become musical ensembles. Her work has been featured and performed in North America, Europe, and Asia including Ars Electronica (Austria), National Public Radio (NPR), Diapason Gallery (Brooklyn), CICA Museum (Korea), New Interfaces for Musical Expression/BEAM Festival (London), ACM Movement and Computing Conference (Italy), the Telfair Museum (Savannah, Georgia). She received her D.M.A in Digital Media and Performance from Arizona State University and her M.A. in Electroacoustic Music from Dartmouth College. She is currently an Assistant Professor at the Center of Creative Computation, Southern Methodist University.