Associate Professor, School of Art, CVPA
Contact Information
Campus: Fairfax
Building:聽Art and Design Building; MSN: 1C3
贰尘补颈濒:听tstanle1@gmu.edu
Biography
Dr. Thomas Stanley is an artist, author, and activist deeply committed to audio culture in the service of personal growth and social change. As performer and curator, Bushmeat Sound has been an integral part of a visionary music scene straddling the Baltimore-Washington corridor. His audio work employs musical sound to anchor, frame, and accelerate our subjective experience of history. In 2014 he authored the聽Execution of Sun Ra, a critical response to the cosmological prognostications of the late jazz iconoclast. Dr. Stanley has spent three decades exploring the ramifications of Alter Destiny, Sun Ra鈥檚 unique construct for a just and sustainable AfroFuture. He has written and lectured extensively on emergent musical cultures and is co-author of聽George Clinton and P-Funk : An Oral History聽(1998, Avon paperback). He hosts 鈥淏ushmeat鈥檚 Jam Session,鈥 a weekly collage of radical music heard on WPFW-FM radio. His doctoral work examined Butch Morris鈥 art of Conduction as an extended meta-instrument offering unique opportunities for musical pedagogy and ensemble consciousness. He is also featured in 鈥淪tranger,鈥 a documentary film about seminal P-Funk and Talking Heads keyboardist Bernie Worrell.
Specialist Areas:
- Aesthetics
- Critical Theory in Visual Arts
- Sound Art