Lecture and Workshop: Frequencies (April 2025)
Lecture and Workshop
Listening as our creative anchor: using the sounds, landscapes and forms around you as creative and entrepreneurial inspiration. Maria Finkelmeier will talk about deep listening as the springboard for ideas, composition, improvisation and fundamental collaboration. Drawing from her touring multimedia project Frequencies, Maria will discuss how she created music by remixing field recordings resulting in a soundtrack that represents the city.
About the Artist
Named a “one-woman dynamo” by the Boston Globe, Maria Finkelmeier is a percussionist, composer, new media artist and Associate Professor of Creative Entrepreneurship at Berklee College of Music. Whether it’s scoring conceptual art films or serving as director, composer and performer in multi-sensory experiences, her work continually transcends both genre and medium.
Empowered by sonic exploration and obsessed with making noise, she transformed Fenway Park into a percussive playground and turned the Roebling Bridge into a sound and light instrument. She's used AI to investigate gender bias through music and poetry, flipped a bus into a mobile electronic bucket drumming program, and performed at iconic global venues such as Carnegie Hall, the Smithsonian and Théatre des Champs-Elysées. Along with her projects at MF Dynamics, she's played with the Boston Modern Orchestra Project, Silkroad Ensemble and Baltic Sea Philharmonic. Her cutting-edge work has been featured in the Boston Globe, National Parks Magazine, Boston Magazine, Vulture, SunSentinel, I Care if You Listen and on WGBH, WBUR and CBS
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