Mandy-Suzanne Wong
Education
- 2012. PhD - Musicology - University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)
- 2009. Candidate in Philosophy - Musicology - UCLA
- 2008. MA Qual. - Music History and Literature - University of Southern California (USC)
- 2005. Graduate Diploma - Piano Performance - New England Conservatory of Music (NEC)
- 2003. MM - Piano Performance with Academic Honors - NEC
- 2001. BA - Music with Honors, Summa Cum Laude, Phi Beta Kappa - Wellesley College (WC)
- 1997. Honors Diploma, Magna Cum Laude - Miss Porter's School
- 1995. Honors Diploma, Bermuda High School
Publications
- 2014. "Reading: Aesthetics, Ownership, and Form of Life in Agamben's The Highest Poverty." Evental Aesthetics 2, no. 4.
- 2014. “Listening to EDM: Sound Object Analysis and Vital Materialism.” Volume! The French Journal of Popular Music Studies.
- 2013. "Snail, Shark, Spirit (Editorial)." Evental Aesthetics 2, no. 2.
- 2013. “Sound Art,” “Sound Sculpture,” “Sound Installation,” “Christian Marclay,” “Yann Novak,” “Steve Roden,” “Mem1,” “Charlemagne Palestine,” “Max Neuhaus,” “Henry Gwiazda,” “Matmos,” "Phill Niblock," and “Trimpin.” Articles in revised edition of The New Grove Dictionary of American Music, Oxford University Press.
- 2013. “Sound Art.” In Oxford Bibliographies Online, Oxford University Press. (Authorization may be required.)
- 2012. “Hegel’s Being-Fluid in Corregidora, Blues, and (Post)Black Aesthetics.” Evental Aesthetics 1, no. 1.
- 2011. “Frances Dyson's Sounding New Media.” Co-author: Nina Eidsheim, Organised Sound, Vol. 16, No. 3, 284-6. (Click for entire issue. Authorization may be required.)
- 2011. "The Tiny Animal that Changes Color in the Night." Short story. Self-published, working as Shay Euston, at Amazon.com.
- 2010. “The Glammogr and the Present Inquiry.” In newsletter
of UCLA Center for Studies on Women, special issue on writing about
music.
2009. “Pierre Schaeffer.” In Musicians and Composers of the Twentieth Century, ed. By Alfred W. Cramer. Ipswich, MA: Salem Press, 1278-1280.
Forthcoming Publications
- "Decentering the Human in Sound Art and Corporeal Archaeology," forthcoming in The Routledge Companion to Sounding Art, Routledge Press.
- “Corporeal Archaeology: Embodied Memory and Improvisation in Corregidora and Contemporary Music,” co-authored with Nina Sun Eidsheim, forthcoming in Sounding the Body: Improvisation, Representation, and Subjectivity, ed. by Gillian Siddall and Ellen Waterman, Duke University Press.
Conference Presentations
- 2013. Society of Literature, Science, and the Arts - Creative Writers' Panel: Selections from Mammoth, a novel-in-progress co-authored with Joanna Demers.
- 2013. Society of Literature, Science, and the Arts: "Mammoth: Art, Extinction, Post-Naturalism," co-authored with Joanna Demers.
- 2012. Society of Literature, Science, and the Arts: "On Decay in Art," co-authored with Joanna Demers.
- 2012. American Comparative Literature Association: "Sound Objects: Empowerment and Abuse Via Musical Discourse."
- 2011. American Society for Aesthetics: “Hume and the Problems of Automobile Aesthetics”
2010. American Society for Aesthetics: “Hegel’s Ontology of Musical Sound” - 2009. Beyond the Centres: A Conference on Avant-garde Music and Aesthetics, Thessaloniki, Greece: “Sound Object Analysis”
- 2009. College Music Society, Pacific Chapter: “Action, Composition – Morton Feldman and Physicality”
- 2009. Musicology Graduate Student Conference, Harvard University: “An Argument for Reduced Listening as a Function of Memory”
- 2009. Hawaii International Conference for the Arts and Humanities: “Sonic Materialism”
Awards and Fellowships
- 2011. Oxford Bibliographies Online Music Graduate Student Award
- 2011. Dissertation Year Fellowship, UCLA
- 2010. Mellon Fellowship of Distinction, UCLA
- 2009. Student Paper Award, College Music Society (Pacific)
- 2008. Mellon Fellowship of Distinction, UCLA
- 2003. Merit Award and Scholarship, NEC
- 2001. Anne Louise Barrett Fellowship for Music Studies, WC
- 2001. Billings Prize for Music Studies, WC
Professional Organizations
- Evental Aesthetics: Editor-in-Chief
- American Musicological Society (Philosophy Interest Group)
- American Society for Aesthetics
- European Society for Aesthetics
- American Comparative Literature Association
- Society of Literature, Science, and the Arts
