b2o is pleased to announce the publication of a special issue titled “(Rhy)pistemologies–Thinking Through Rhythm”, which is inspired by multidisciplinary tap dance artist and scholar Michael J. Love’s concept of “(rhy)pistemology”. The special issue, for which Love provides the lead essay, is edited by b2o and b2 friend Erin Graff Zivin, and developed out of a two-day event at Art Share L.A. in May 2024; an earlier conversation about similar topics at the American Comparative Literature Association meeting in Montreal in March 2024; and the monthly meetings of the USC Dornsife Experimental Humanities Lab “Thinking Through Rhythm” study group. Contributors include: Erin Graff Zivin and Jonathan Leal, Maya Kronfeld, Michael E. Sawyer, Jamal Batts, Seth Brodsky, Eyal Peretz, Naomi Waltham-Smith, Alex E. Chávez, and Michael Gallope and Edwin C. Hill. Erin has recently collaborated with Arne De Boever, Kara Keeling, and Michael Pisaro-Liu on b2‘s “Experiments in Listening” conference (January 2025), and a special issue related to that event is in the works.
Additional video from the Art Share L.A. event in May 2024 has been posted on our sounds page.