MUSICAL PERFORMANCES
December 4, 2016
Michael Veal & Aqua Ife
"Yale Africa Into Jazz/Jazz Into Africa Festival"
Toad’s Place, New Haven, CT
(with Mamady Kouyate & Les Ambassadeurs du Mandeng)
December 2, 2016
Michael Veal & Aqua Ife
The Shrine, New York City
September 2, 2016
Michael Veal & Aqua Ife
Blue Note, New York City
June 19, 2016
Michael Veal & Aqua Ife
Drom, New York City
May 13, 2016
Michael Veal & Aqua Ife
The Shrine, New York City
November 14, 2015
Michael Veal & Aqua Ife
The Shrine, New York City
September 18, 2015
Michael Veal & Aqua Ife
The Shrine, New York City
July 24, 2015
Michael Veal & Aqua Ife
The Shrine, New York City
May 6, 2015
Michael Veal & Aqua Ife
The Shrine, New York City
July 22, 2014
Michael Veal & Aqua Ife
The Shrine, New York City
February 8, 2014
Michael Veal & Aqua Ife
The Shrine, New York City
February 11, 2015
Michael Veal & Bennett Paster Play the Music of Sun Ra
The Shrine, New York City
December 9, 2014
Michael Veal & Bennett Paster Play the Music of Sun Ra
The Shrine, New York City
October 30, 2014
Michael Veal & Bennett Paster Play the Music of Sun Ra
Silvana, New York City
February 10, 2010
Michael Veal & Aqua Ife
Paris, France
(with Tony Allen)
RECENT TALKS, PAPERS AND LECTURES
Michael Veal & Sea Bat Cloud 9: Fractals and Scars on a Compact Octagon
West End Lounge, New York City
April 7th, 2018
Seminar: "Jazz & Architecture"
Columbia University Center for Jazz Studies
April 7th & 8th, 2018
Dillon + Lee Gallery (NYC) Presents: "Sublime Frequencies and Other Distortions: Readings from the New Book Punk Ethnography
(with E. Tammy Kim, Marc Masters, Rachel Lears, Stanley Scott & Wills Glasspiegel)
December 7, 2016
“Castles Made of Sound: Haruna Ishola and Lazaro Ros in the Yoruba Continuum”
Works-in-Progress Series
Yale University
September, 2016
“Chaos or Curvilinearity? Digital Architecture and Deformations of the Africanist Grid in the Late Music of John Coltrane”
Columbia University, Center for Jazz Studies
April 2016
“Through the Mists of Its Mediated Myth”
Works-in-Progress Series
Department of Music, Yale University
April 2016
“Through the Mists of Its Mediated Myth”
Columbia University, Center for Jazz Studies
February 2016
“Chaos or Curvilinearity: Digital Architecture and Deformations of the Africanist Grid in the Later Music of John Coltrane”
ArchitekturSalon
Hamburg, Germany
March, 2015
Panelist: Tomorrow is the Question: Afro-Futurism, Sound, and Spirit
Department of Music, Columbia University
February, 2015
“Jazz Rhythm in East and West”
The International Symposium on Jazz Cosmopolitanism from East to West
Ningbo University, Ningbo, China
January 2015
“Tony Allen: Master Drummer of Afrobeat”
Columbia University, Center for Jazz Studies
March, 2014
“Dub Music of 1970s Jamaica: The Acoustics of Diaspora and the Post-Colony”
Conference: New Directions in Caribbean Sound Studies
Rutgers University
April, 2013
“Dry Spell Blues: Sublime Frequencies in the West African Sahel”
Department of Music
Harvard University
April, 2013
“Warps, Ribbons, Crumpled Surfaces and Superimposed Shapes: Surfing the Contours
of Miles Davis’s ‘Lost Quintet’”
Music in Architecture/Architecture in Music Conference
University of Texas at Austin
October, 2011
“Fela Anikulapo-Kuti’s Afrobeat in Nigerian and African Culture”
for Professor Manthia Diawara
Africana Studies
New York University
February, 2010
"Technotopia 1969"
Department of Music
Brown University
October, 2009
"Technotopia 1969"
Department of Music
University of Köln
Köln, Germany
June, 2009
"Body Heat": Experimentalism, Abstraction and the Rhythmicized Body Across the Black Atlantic" As part of the exhibition: CROSSINGS: Jazzin' the Cultural Fields
Mussée du Quai Branly
Paris, France
May, 2009
"Technotopia 1969"
Department of Music
Harvard University
April, 2009
"Technotopia 1969"
Center for Jazz Studies
Columbia University
April, 2009
Discussant: "Intersections of Biography & Jazz Studies"
First Annual Conference on Biography
CUNY Graduate Center
March, 2009
FILM APPEARANCES
Mr. Dynamite: The Rise of James Brown
(dir. Alex Gibney, 2014)
Finding Fela
(dir. Alex Gibney, 2014)
Beware of Mr. Baker
(dir. Jay Bulger, 2012)