Faculty Accomplishments

Ciufo, T. (2024) Editorial Collective, Chapter Co-Author. Improvising Across Abilities: Pauline Oliveros and the Adaptive Use Musical Instrument, University of Michigan Press, Music and Social Justice Series. https://press.umich.edu/Books/I/Improvising-Across-Abilities3

Thomas Ciufo presented, "Teaching Acoustic Ecology: Social Engagement in a Time of Crisis" at the Eighteenth International Conference on the Arts in Society, New Aesthetic Expressions: The Social Role of Art. https://www.culture-connect.net/events/2023/7/5/artsinsociety

Thomas Ciufo (Music) presented a new project called Lines and Circles - an improvisational live performance project using a custom-built modular synthesis system. This concert work was presented at the 17th Ammerman Center Biennial Symposium on Arts & Technology at Connecticut College.

Recently proposed and chaired a panel entitled, Sound and Activism: Acoustic Ecology and Sound Art in the Time of Environmental Crisis. This panel was presented as part of Earth Day Art Model (https://edam2022.deck10.media) a global telematic and media event held on International Earth Day. The festival highlights current artistic perspectives that range from scientific observation to creative works of music and intermedia.

Recently released two CD projects. The collaborative live electroacoustic project, ElectroResonance, is out on the Neuma Record label in stereo and surround sound formats. He also released a 25th anniversary reissue of his first solo ambient electronic music project, Sun at Midnight. Both are available on CD and all major streaming platforms.

Presented Teaching Acoustic Ecology and Sonic Art in the Age of Environmental Crisis at the Responses in Music to Climate Change Conference, October 2021.

Performed MultiLiminal with the Veiled Borders Quartet, an international improvising electroacoustic quartet with collaborators John Godfrey, Karen Power (Ireland) and Jane Rigler (USA). This performance was part of the Tenth Annual Electroacoustic Barn Dance, a three-day festival of electronic music and art, held November 5-7, 2020 (virtually). 

Performed with an international improvising electroacoustic quartet called Veiled Borders, with collaborators John Godfrey, Karen Power (Ireland) and Jane Rigler (USA). This multi-location online telematic performance was part of the International Network Music Festival, an innovative digital music, art and research festival that investigates the impact of networking technology on musical creation and performance practice.

Performed with a new international quartet project, Veiled Borders: Analog/Digital Hybridity with collaborators John Godfrey, Karen Power (Ireland) and Jane Rigler (USA). This multi-location online telematic performance was part of the Earth Day Art Mode 2020 ‘Music in Place’ online festival. (2020)