Jay Afrisando

Faculty Advisor, Sound, Accessibility & Acoustic Ecology

Jay Afrisando is an Assistant Professor of Music at UC Santa Cruz and a composer, multimedia artist, researcher, and educator whose work spans music-theater, installation, film, participatory performance, storytelling, and listening practices. His research centers aural diversity, disability and accessibility, acoustic ecology, cultural identity, and decolonizing arts practices, often approaching listening as a multisensory, social, and environmental practice. His work has been presented internationally, including at the Smithsonian Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Walker Art Center, daadgalerie, ARTJOG, and the UCSC Institute of the Arts and Sciences.