Barry Salmon

Associate Professor of Media Studies and Film

Email:

salmonb@newschool.edu

Profile:

Composer of scores for numerous films as well as music for dance, theater, radio, and video art. Festivals, installations, honors and awards include CINE Golden Eagle, Berlin, Brussels, Frankfurt, Sundance, Telluride, and Toronto film festivals; Chicago Museum of Broadcasting, Museum of Modern Art. Performing and recording guitarist and record/CD producer.

Recent Publications:

• "[RE] Composing for the Films: The Problem of Praxis" in Schweinhardt, Peter, editor. Eisler Studien, Vol. 3: Aufsätze zum Thema Komposition für den Film, (Leipzig, Breitkopf & Härtel, 2008)
• "Framing Noise," co-authored with Shannon Mattern, in Music, Sound, and the Moving Image, Vol. 1, Number 2.,  (Liverpool, Liverpool University Press, Forthcoming, 2008)
• Reviews: Kassabian, Anahid, Hearing Film:  Tracking Identifications in Contemporary Hollywood Film Music. (New York:  Routledge, 2001) Robertson, Pamela Wojcik, and Arthur Knight, eds. 
• "Soundtrack Available: Essays on Film and Popular Music"  (Durham: Duke University Press, 2001), in The Journal of Popular Music Studies. Volume 18, Number 1. (Oxford, Blackwell Press, 2006)
• Europa, CD, producer; with John Gentry Tennyson, (New York, Angel/EMI Records, 2000)

Research Interests:

• Mediation
• Sound Studies Aesthetics
• Music and the Political
• Music and Image