Specdrums technology turns color into music

Meet CU Boulder startup Specdrums

July 18, 2018

College of Music student Jenna Palensky is also a full-time team member at Specdrums, a Boulder startup that was recently acquired by robot toy company Sphero.

Susan Thomas

Meet AMRC Director Susan Thomas

July 10, 2018

Professor of Musicology Susan Thomas comes from the musicology and women’s studies departments at the University of Georgia to head the American Music Research Center.

Specdrums—a new venture dreamt up by a CU engineering student—makes music using only color, an app and a little silicon ring.

CU-bred Specdrums puts music at your fingertips

May 29, 2018

All you need to make music is color, an app and a silicone ring.

kolby morris in israel

Where music has the most meaning

April 30, 2018

As Kolby Morris (BM ’08) thinks back on her musical training, she says some of the most influential forces that led her to where she is today were ethnomusicology and world music.

tom riis

Life at the intersection of music and learning

April 9, 2018

Professor of Musicology and Joseph Negler Endowed Chair in Music Thomas Riis will retire from the College of Music and the American Music Research Center this spring.

lila downs and julieta garcia

Artist Series brings student together with her idol

April 3, 2018

Junior Julieta García performed on stage with Lila Downs during the Mexican singer’s Artist Series concert last month.

hotel boulderado with mountains in background

Back to the beginning with the Society for Seventeenth-Century Music

April 2, 2018

The national conference of the Society for Seventeenth-Century Music is April 19-22 at the Hotel Boulderado.

latin american ensemble on stage

World Music Showcase: The Latin American Ensemble

March 22, 2018

On April 22, the Latin-American ensemble performs mariachi, rumba and other Afro-Latin music.

Charlotte Heth

First Distinguished Lectureship on Music, Diversity and Inclusion hosts Native American music scholar

Jan. 30, 2018

On Feb. 28, the College of Music kicks off its annual Distinguished Lectureship on Music, Diversity and Inclusion with a free lecture by Native American ethnomusicologist Charlotte Heth.

japanese ensemble performs on stage

World Music Showcase: The Japanese Ensemble

Oct. 31, 2017

Your chance to gaze through a window into a far-away culture is coming up next week in Grusin Music Hall as the Japanese Ensemble takes the stage.

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