Kaori Suzuki
Electronic Music
Prior to Santa Clara University, Kaori Suzuki taught at the Center for Contemporary Music at Mills College, a once venerable center for the historical avant-garde (street and academic). There she learned to encourage students to seek beyond the surface and ask better questions of the study of “electronic music,” as asking such questions is the purpose toward which all so-called scientific and technological revolutions should lead us.
She teaches courses on the history and culture of early sound reproduction and its effects on global musical practice, history of electronic music, and aesthetic theory (the practices and philosophies of listening and performing) in order to better understand aesthetic experience and forms.
Suzuki has presented musical works across North America, Japan, and Europe, and recordings of her solo and collaborative works exist on various record labels. Her projects range from light & sound installations, solo electronic and electroacoustic compositions, and performing on cello and electric guitar in an amplified strings ensemble