Across an Invisible Line: A Conversation about Music and Torture

Suzanne G. Cusick is Professor of Music at New York University and, since 2003, editor of Women and Music: A Journal of Gender and Culture. She is author of Francesca Caccini at the Medici Court: Music and the Circulation of Power (Chicago, 2009), which won the 2010 Society for the Study of Early Modern Women book prize, and recipient of the 2007 Philip Brett Award given by the LGBTQ Study Group of the American Musicological Society for her work on noise, music, and “gender coercion” in the contemporary detention and interrogation of prisoners.

Branden W. Joseph is Frank Gallipoli Professor of Modern and Contemporary Art at Columbia University, an editor of Grey Room, and author of Beyond the Dream Syndicate: Tony Conrad and the Arts after Cage(Zone Books, 2008). Joseph's writing on music and sound art has appeared in Artforum, October, Critical Inquiry, Doxa, and Texte zur Kunst, as well as various catalogues and books.