The Herb Alpert School of Music and the Center for Discursive Inquiry, School of Critical Studies are delighted to collaborate on and welcome visiting professor J.P. Caron, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro to Calarts. This will feature Sonic Boom, Wednesday, October 23rd, Venue: ROD, 10-11:50 am, a concert presenting the music of JP Caron, Wednesday, October 23rd, Venue: ROD, 8-10 pm, and ART as a TOTAL SOCIAL FACT, a panel discussion where J.P Caron will present his philosophical work. He is joined by Amanda Beech, Chris Santiago (School of Critical Studies), Michael Pisaro Lui and Eyvind Kang (School of Music), Thursday 24th October, Venue: Butler Building 4 #D 4.30pm- 7.30pm, Friday, October 25th, Experimental Music Workshop, Venue: Wild Beast, 10-11:50am.
J.-P. Caron is a philosopher and musician based in Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo, Brazil. He's a lecturer at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro and an instructor at the New Centre for Research and Practice. As a musician he released many albums, several through his own label Seminal Records. He's currently writing two books: one on the relationships between language, rule-following, forms of life and value-form in contemporary capitalism; one on the ontology of indeterminacy in experimental music from an inferentialist point of view.