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Graduating Class of 2021 M EGAN E Issue !"# June $#$! A NEWSLETTER OF THE ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY COMMUNITY Jingyi Chi Margaret Fabiszak Caitlin Gilbert Rachel Leicher Graduating Class of 2021 M EGAN E . KELLEY Natural Selections would like to honor and celebrate the Sanjeethan Baksh 2021 graduating class from !e Caner Çağlar Rockefeller University. On !urs- Steven Cajamarca day, June 10 at 2:30 p.m., Rocke- Vikram Chandra feller will hold its second virtual Du Cheng convocation and confer doctorate Pavan Choppakatla degrees upon thirty-three gradu- ate students. To the future doc- Juliel Espinosa tors, congratulations! Your years Daniel Firester Rohiverth Guarecuco Jr. Nicole Infarinato Jakob Træland Rostøl, of hard work and perseverance are an inspiration. We wish you “Feel the fear, and do it “Another day, another Veronica Jové all the best in the next phases of Solomon N Levin anyway.” dollar” your careers and lives. n Fangyu Liu Olivia Maguire Kristina Navrazhina Tiên Minh Thủy Phan- Everson Artem Serganov Rohan R. Soman Elitsa Stoyanova Tony Sun Taku Tsukidate Putianqi Wang Xiao Wang Ross Weber Robert Williams Fanny Matheis Elisabeth Anne Murphy Xiphias Ge Zhu ! Editorial Board Megan Elizabeth Kelley Editor-in-Chief and Managing Editor, Communication Anna Amelianchik Associate Editor Nicole Infarinato Editorial Assistant, Copy Editor, Distribution Evan Davis Copy Editor, Photographer-in-Residence PHOTO COURTESY OF METROGRAPH PICTURES Melissa Jarmel Copy Editor, Website Tra!c Sisters with Transistors Audrey Goldfarb LANA NORRIS Copy Editor, Webmaster, Website Design Women have o"en been overlooked Barron built her own circuitry, and Laurie Jennifer Einstein, Emma Garst in the history of electronic music. !eir Spiegel programmed compositional so"- Copy Editors mastery of new technology and alien ware for Macs. sounds enabled them to innovate outside Electronic music lends itself to in- Jim Keller of traditional male-dominated structures, terdisciplinary collaboration, and Mary- Editor-at-Large but even collaborations with John Cage, anne Amacher reached beyond art and Nan Pang Merce Cunningham, Karl Stockhausen, technology to integrate scienti#c research Designer MGM Studios, and Coca-Cola failed to into her compositions. Conscious that the cement their pioneer status. mammalian ear introduces distortions— Sisters with Transistors, a documen- phantom tones—which modify acoustic 1 selections.rockefeller.edu tary #lm directed by Lisa Rovner, presents input, Amacher “established practical and [email protected] a remedial history chronicling the de#n- conceptual groundwork that centered au- ing female #gures of electronic music. !e ditory processes in composition.”2 !ese eighty-four-minute #lm is divided into women were doing the basic science of roughly ten sections of public-domain, composing: there was no guaranteed public consciousness and pop music with concert, interview, and even experimental pro#t or application from their e%orts. In the help of Wendy Carlos’ Switched-On cinema footage documenting each com- fact, electronic music was unpopular with Bach album. poser. !e archival collage, like the cre- both labor unions and the public alike. !ese composers went beyond tin- ative history it depicts, is initially disjunct But the aesthetic in&uence of World Wars kering with radios: their work made so- but coheres later on; artist Laurie Ander- and space exploration eventually required cial demands. !ey challenged traditional son narrates but the musical soundtrack is new sounds. !e MGM sci-# Forbidden structures and founded in&uential depart- the real throughline. Planet (1956) featured Bebe Barron’s mu- ments. Oliveros explicitly correlated her To create their new musical vocabu- sic as the #rst all-electronic #lm score; electronic music with societal responsi- lary, these composers used an array of ex- the #lm’s dying monster was the sound of bilities during the Vietnam and Cold War isting technology and also developed their a “dying” circuit. Seven years later, Delia eras, and her theoretical writings are still own. Clara Rockmore popularized the Derbyshire—an Oxford mathematician instructive today. She insisted that deep theremin (an electronic instrument con- turned composer—created the original listening is radical attentiveness that gath- trolled by hand movements in air rather Doctor Who theme song and shi"ed Eng- ers meaning, interprets, and ultimately than physical contact). Suzanne Ciani fell lish public opinion on electronic music. shapes culture by deciding on action. in love with Buchla modular synthesizers. Suzanne Ciani became the #rst woman to !ese composers did exactly that, chang- Éliane Radigue used the ARP 2500 to cre- score a major Hollywood movie in 1981, ing our soundscapes and cultural practic- ate airplane-inspired soundscapes. Daph- and electronic music transitioned into es; Sisters with Transistors turns up their n ne Oram collected tape machines from 1 Hudspeth, A. ‘Integrating the active process sound. World War II and basic lab equipment to of hair cells with cochlear function’, Nat Rev establish #rst a BBC electronic music divi- Neurosci, 15 [online]. Available at: https://doi. Sisters with Transistors had its U.S. premiere sion and then her own studio. When avail- org/10.1038/nrn3786 (Accessed 02 May 2021) through Metrograph online 23 April 2021 and able tools were insu$cient, Wendy Carlos 2 Cimini, A. and Dietz, B. (eds.) (2020). Mary- at the time of writing was only available through helped advance the Moog keyboard, Bebe anne Amacher: Selected Writings and Interviews. 06 May 2021. https://sisterswithtransistors.com/ $ Brooklyn, NY: Blank Forms Editions Pets of Tri-I A UDREY G OLDFARB A few weeks ago, a new resident moved into my apartment. We are already a full house: four humans, one cat, 500ish worms, and pos- sibly some undetected mice or roaches resid- ing in the walls. So, when a perky little axolotl dropped their bags in our doorway, I was a bit concerned with how they’d #t in. Luckily, I had nothing to be worried about. “Boba” is a de- lightful but unobtrusive housemate, and they even set their tank up right in front of the door to greet us all when we get home! !is month, I #nally made some time to get to know Boba better and also learned some things about axo- lotl biology. Boba’s answers were translated by César Vargas and Marley Kern. Audrey Goldfarb: What does it mean to be “neotenic”? Boba: I am a baby. Basically, I am forever a baby salamander, never a grown-up salaman- der. So, I’ll never go through metamorphosis like my frog and salamander cousins. AG: What is the most juvenile thing about you? B: My humans say I’m picky because I like my worms cut up into little pieces and they have to wash them for me. I spit my food out when I don’t want it. CÉSAR VARGAS AG: Conversely, are you especially mature in any way? B: No…not really. AG: If you could, what would you want to be when you grow up? B: Well, I don’t really grow up, I just get big- B: Composting! It’s where the humans keep All Photos Courtesy of ger! But when I’m big I wanna be a worm bi- my worm dinners! !ey say it’s good for AG: Your tank is in a perfect spot to see ev- ologist so I can study worms and #gure out other stu% too, but I don’t know what else it eryone coming and going throughout the which is the tastiest! would do. day. Do you !nd human behavior enter- taining? AG: What are your hobbies? AG: Do you have any hot takes? B: Yeah! !ey look so funny on two legs, like, B: Going with the &ow and hanging out in B: I think #sh are overrated, much better as why do they do that? I like four legs much the &oating garden in my tank. snacks than pets. Also, I don’t get why there’s better. Sometimes their coming and going a big deal about my extinction, like I’m obvi- also interrupts my naps, but I know they are AG: Do your humans give you treats? ously alive, why do they say I’m going extinct? busy humans. B: Not yet, they said when I’m bigger they’ll let me try new foods. AG: Would you consider donating your AG: Describe your perfect Saturday. body to science? B: Take a walk around the tank, #nd a good AG: Do your humans give you words of af- B: Yup! I can grow my body parts back any- spot to &oat, and nap the day away dreaming !rmation? way, so I can donate an arm and a leg if sci- about worms. B: Mmmmhmmm! !ey tell me how cute ence asks me! and cool I am. I like it when they talk to me. AG: What is your favorite thing about your AG: Do you get lonely? humans? AG: What is an issue you’re passionate B: Not too lonely, I’m watching the &u%y pet B: !ey take good care of me and give me about? that runs around outside my tank. yummy worms! n % The Maestà and predella paintings by Duccio and workshop, Sienna. Culture Corner: Image and Image: How Photographic Reproductions Enhance the Experience of Art BERNIE LANGS Duccio di Buoninsegna and His by photographic replicas, to train and pre- School, by James H. Stubblebine, is a two- pare dedicated readers on what to look for volume set of books examining the fasci- in the presence of original art. nating period of early Italian Renaissance "e Maestà is a masterpiece of ear- art from 1285 up to about 1330. !e second ly Italian Renaissance painting by Duc- volume features over 500 black and white cio and a perfect example of how reading photographs of the paintings discussed in about art assists in the enjoyment of the volume one, including each of the surviv- object.
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