About
At SOUND HALL we highlight sound and music at the intersection of personal memory and public history.
We create spaces for collective listening through grounded engagement, where critical thought meets creative practice and deep listening. Somewhere between the vibrant energy of a concert hall, the focused inquiry of a classroom, and the deeper registers of spiritual insight, SOUND HALL is where we gather to listen, contemplate, and connect through the meaning of sound and music in our everyday lives and in the larger, collective imagination.
We believe music artists, listeners, and collectors are also historians and that, to different degrees, we are all archivists. Whenever we listen to a particular song, or collection of sounds, we create stories around what we hear--about our pasts, our presents, and our futures.
SOUND HALL is where we gather to listen and learn from some of those stories.
Projects
Performances
Shabaka
San Diego, CA
Diaspora Songs
with Dr. Julian Saporiti (No-No Boy) and Dao Strom
Ohio State University
Columbus, OH
Mdou Moctar
Firehouse 12 Studio
New Haven, CT
Chicago Underground Duo
in conversation with Joe Morris
New Haven, CT
Conferences
Beyonce Makes History: Formidable Black Feminst Sound in the Twenty-First Century
Yale University
Black Sound & the Archive
New Haven, CT
Black Star Rising and the Purple Reign: Celebrating David Bowie and Prince
Black Sound & the Archive
Yale University
New Haven, CT
Talks
Jack White, Adia Victoria, Greil Marcus, Dean Blackwood and Prof. Daphne Brooks
on “The Rise and Fall of Paramount Records”
Black Sound & the Archive
Yale University
New Haven, CT
Ian Svenonius
on “Supernatural Strategies for Making a Rock ‘n’ Roll Group”
Project Storefronts
New Haven, CT
Dr. George Lipsitz
on “The Johnny Otis Story”
Yale University
New Haven, CT
Michael Pigott (Masstropicas)
in conversation with Rick Omante on “Peruvian Chicha and Cumbia”
New Haven, CT
Screenings
Kahlil Joseph
in conversation with
Prof. Daphne Brooks
on “Making Lemonade and BLKNWS”
Black Sound & the Archive
Yale University
New Haven, CT
Collaborators & Sponsors
FUTURE IS COLOR
Firehouse 12 Studio
Urban Arts Space
American Council of Learned Societies
Yale University--
Black Sound & the Archive Research Group
Public Humanities Program
Ohio State University--
College of Arts and Sciences
School of Music
Global Arts + Humanities
Comparative Studies Dept
Center for Ethnic Studies
Humanities Institute