Season 3 - Ep. 5 Jessie Cox: Sound as a new way of thinking

Season 3, Episode 5 with Jessie Cox, composer, percussionist, scholar, and Assistant Professor in the Harvard Department of Music.

Jessie Cox has performed and created with ensembles including the Sun Ra Arkestra, LA Phil, Klangforum Wien, Ensemble Modern, and the International Contemporary Ensemble.

In this episode, Jessie and ArtLab director Bree Edwards dive into his course Music, Technology, and Ecology and the instrument-making workshops held at ArtLab. Together, they explore how sound shapes belonging—and how making new instruments can open new ways of understanding the world.

https://www.jessiecoxmusic.com/

Listen via the ArtLab website or wherever you get your podcasts.

Thanks for joining us for Works in Progress. We hope these conversations give you a glimpse into the creativity, collaboration, and experimentation happening at ArtLab. To learn more, visit artlab.harvard.edu.

The podcast is recorded in the Mead Production Lab at the ArtLab in Boston, Massachusetts.

Hosted by Bree Edwards
Audio by Luke Damroch
Production by Kat Nakaji
Research by Sadie Trichler & Ria Cuéllar-Koh

Design by James Blue & Sonia Ralston