Michael Frishkopf

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After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music. (Aldous Huxley)


Dr. Michael Frishkopf
Associate Professor, Department of Music
Associate Director, Canadian Centre for Ethnomusicology (CCE)
Research Fellow, folkwaysAlive!

Mail: Michael Frishkopf, Department of Music, Faculty of Arts, University of Alberta, 3-82 Fine Arts Building, Edmonton, AB CANADA T6G 2C9
Office: 334D Old Arts Building
Tel: Skype: (617) 275-2589; office: (780) 492-0225. Music Dept: (780) 492-3263
Fax: Music Dept: (780) 492-9246. CCE (780) 492-0242
Web: http://bit.ly/mfwiki

Office hours: Wednesdays, 1 pm - 3:15 pm. Schedule an appointment.

Info

Michael Frishkopf, Associate Professor of Music at the University of Alberta, is an ethnomusicologist and composer. A graduate of Yale College (BS Mathematics, 1984), Tufts University (MA Ethnomusicology, 1989), and the University of California, Los Angeles (Ph.D. Music, 1999), Dr. Frishkopf’s ethnomusicological research interests include Sufi music; the Arab music industry; sound in Islamic ritual performance; music in West Africa; music and religion; comparative music theory; the sociology of musical taste; social network analysis; digital music repositories; music of refugees (especially in the Buduburam refugee camp, Ghana); participatory action research…

He has received numerous fellowships supporting his research, including grants from Fulbright, the American Research Center in Egypt, the Social Science Research Council, the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation, the Killam Foundation (Canada), the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the Social Science and Humanities Research Council of Canada, supporting his extensive fieldwork in Egypt.

In performance, Michael specializes in the nay (Middle Eastern reed flute), and also performs the song-drum-dance traditions of Ghana. He is the founder (in 2004) of the University of Alberta Middle Eastern and North African Music Ensemble, as well as the University of Alberta West African Music Ensemble (in 1999). Both ensembles perform frequently in public in the Edmonton area, especially to support progressive causes. He also performs “Third Stream” and world music inflected jazz on the piano, following studies with Ran Blake and others in the Third Stream program at the New England Conservatory of Music in Boston.

Current projects include:

  • Sounds of Islam and Sufi ritual
  • Music and Architecture in Islam
  • Music media in the Arab world
  • [Virtual (world] music) - world music in cyberworlds
  • Ethnomusicological participatory action research towards sustainable development and peace: popular music of refugees (West Africa)
  • MuDoc: Music/Multimedia Documentation (digital repository)
  • Transmission of musical taste
  • Musical subgraphs of Twitter (social network analysis)


Curriculum Vitae


Ethnomusicology, psychoacoustics, computer science, media studies, anthropology, Middle East studies, religious/Islamic studies, literary studies, music theory...
a sampling of documents available online, in whole or in part...

Articles, proceedings, chapters, book

Reviews

  • Music of Makran: traditional fusion from coastal Balochistan, in Asian Music, Summer/Fall 2006
  • Sufi music review: (1) Soufis d'algerie: Mostaganem/Algeria: The Sufis of Mostaganem. 2003. Prophet Collection 31. Philips 472 503-2; (2) Chant soufi de Syrie: Dhikr Qadiri Khalwati de la Zawiya Hilaliya, Alep /Sufi chanting from Syria : Dhikr Qadiri Khalwati of the Zawiya Hilaliya, Aleppo . 2002. Maison des Cultures du Monde, Inedit W 260109. (3) Maroc: L'art du sama' a Fes/Morocco: The Art of Sama' in Fez . 2002. Disques VDE-GALLO, VDE CD-1104. (CD reviews). In Yearbook of the International Council for Traditional Music.
  • Review of Asmahan’s Secrets: Woman, War, and Song (No. 13 in the Middle East Monograph Series ( Austin: UT Center for Middle Eastern Studies, 2000), by Sherifa Zuhur), International Journal of Middle East Studies (fall 2002). Arabic version in Weghat Nazar.

Theses

Outreach and action research

Media appearances

Sufism and the Moulid (Afropop worldwide)

Koranic Recitation (Afropop worldwide)

Influence of music in foreign conflicts (The Daily Orange, Syracuse University)

Thus Spake the Reed Flute (al-Ahram Weekly)

Liberia: Refugees Produce CD of Music With Canadian University (Allafrica)

Célébrer tout en musique (CBC)

Salsa de Arabia (World Changing)

University of Alberta composers

Multimedia projects

Film

Shadow and Music in Buduburam

Virtual Museum

Virtual Museum of Canadian Traditional Music

Technology

Digital media

Educational programs

Musical composition and improvisation

Notes on the compositions

Nay improvisations...

  • Nay 1 (Edmonton Sound Sessions)
  • Nay 2 (Edmonton Sound Sessions)

Event production

(random sample)