Miki Kaneda is Assistant Professor of Music at Boston University. Her research focuses on transcultural crossings and the entanglements of race, gender, power, and colonial residues in experimental, avant-garde and popular music in the 20th and 21st centuries. Trained in musicology and ethnomusicology, she has published on topics including the transnational flows of experimental music, graphic scores, art and the everyday, and media ecologies. Her current book project titled “The Unexpected Collectives: Transpacific Musical Experimentalisms” is an ethnographic and historical study that focuses on intermedia (a kind of multimedia art) as a vehicle to examine transpacific artistic exchanges and relations of power through the work of 1960s Japanese and American musicians. For 2017, she is Visiting Assistant Professor, Music / Weatherhead East Asian Institute at Columbia University. Previous positions include postdoctoral fellowships at the Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies at Harvard University and the Museum of Modern Art, where she was a founding co-editor of the web platform, post.at.moma.org.
Lemon Guo is a singer, composer and multimedia artist from China. With a background in Chinese folk music, Lemon graduated from the University of Virginia in 2015 with a distinguished major in music composition (BA), and is currently a second year MFA student in Sound Arts at Columbia University. Her recent work often creates intimate yet distant listening situations for evocative and subtle vocal performances. The work often explores subjects that she is deeply conflicted with, such as the smog pollution and the replaces identities of Chinese folk music.