About Audiovisual Music at UCR
Audiovisual Music at the University of California, Riverside is an interdisciplinary initiative dedicated to exploring the evolving relationships between sound and image. The field of audiovisual music examines how auditory and visual elements interact to form integrated artistic, compositional, and perceptual experiences, expanding the possibilities of music, media art, and time-based practices.
Audiovisual Music is a collaborative project between the UCR Department of Music and UCR ARTS, bringing together UCR students, faculty, composers, visual artists, scholars, and external collaborators. The initiative supports creative production, critical inquiry, and cross-disciplinary exchange through a range of public-facing programs and research-driven projects.
Programs include conferences, concerts, virtual and in-person exhibitions, screenings, talks, and collaborative projects, presenting work by emerging and established artists working across music, sound art, moving image, and digital media. These activities foster dialogue around the aesthetic, technical, and cultural dimensions of audiovisual creation in a global and technologically driven context.
Projects and programs are organized by Professor Paulo Chagas (Department of Music, UC Riverside) and Nikolay Maslov (Curator of Special Projects, UCR ARTS), in collaboration with artists, scholars, and guests from around the world.
By situating creative practice alongside scholarship, Audiovisual Music at UCR advances new forms of audiovisual expression while contributing to broader conversations about perception, media, and interdisciplinary art today.
About UCR Department of Music
The Department of Music at UC Riverside offers undergraduate majors leading to the B.A. in Music and the B.A. in Music and Culture, as well as an M.A./Ph.D. in Music with a specialization in three areas: musicology, ethnomusicology, and digital composition.
The Department features a distinctive and supportive environment for study in music. It emphasizes close interaction between its students and faculty and provides for a continuously expanding range of musical and intellectual pursuits. Faculty interests range from traditional Western art music (offering foundational study in traditional musicology, theory, and composition) and ethnomusicology (music ethnography) to cultural studies, gender/sexuality, critical theory, free improvisation, digital and electronic music composition, popular music and the culture industry (including television and film as well as computer gaming), area studies, and many others. The entire faculty shares a belief in the importance of musical performance, an activity in which many are regularly engaged, and students receive individual attention in both research and creative projects.
About UCR ARTS
UCR ARTS opened to the public in 2010, bringing together the California Museum of Photography (founded in 1973), the Jack and Marilyn Sweeney Art Gallery (1963), and the Barbara and Art Culver Center of the Arts (2010). Located three miles from UCR’s main campus, UCR ARTS is located on a single block in adjacent historical buildings downtown Riverside.
Contact
For inquiries, please contact: audiovisualmusic@ucr.edu