Cardiovascular Chopin: Ending at the Beginning with Guido Van der Werve

Michael Maizels is currently Mellon Curator of New Media Art at the Davis Museum at Wellesley College, where he has presented exhibitions of art and music, including audio works by La Monte Young, Terry Riley, Marcel Duchamp, and Bruce Nauman. He is at work on his second book, Radical Composition, which will address interrelationships among artists and composers such as Dan Flavin, Sol Lewitt, Richard Serra, La Monte Young, Steve Reich, and Meredith Monk. In addition to his work at the Davis, he has also served as resident dramaturg for the experimental opera company Opera Cabal.

Jenny Olivia Johnson is a composer and sound artist currently teaching at Wellesley College. Her music is often concerned with abstract representations of overwhelming emotional experiences. Her scholarly work on synaesthesia, musical memory, and trauma has been published in Women and Music: A Journal of Gender and Culture and the Transcultural Music Review. Her interactive sound installation “Glass Heart” is scheduled for exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery in 2017.