March 7, 2014: The Foundation is excited to be hosting two eminent visiting scholars this semester. Germán Gan-Quesada, from the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, will be giving a lecture a the Graduate Center on March 7. His talk, Spain Was Not (So) Different, will concern the avant-garde in 20th Century Spanish music.

Julián Elvira is a visiting scholar that is also a talented flautist. In addition, he has recently designed a special type of flute that is capable of reproducing the timbres of many different instruments. In fact, this instrument can produce so many different tones, that Elvira is looking into data visualization. Data visualization is an exciting new field – pioneered by such scholars as Manuel Lima and CUNY’s own Lev Manovich – in which large pools of information are condensed and represented graphically.