Matthew Rahaim

Hindustani Vocalist: Khyal, Gwalior Gayaki // shagird of Laxman Krishnarao Pandit

Improviser: Voice, analog synthesizers, gestural sound synthesis, improvised conduction

Composer: Newly devised instruments and tuning systems, event scores, electroacoustic environments, anthropocene sonic ecology, virtual spaces, experimental phenomenology, polymodal counterpoint

Scholar: Professor of Music at the University of Minnesota in the division of Global Creative Studies. History and ethnography of South Asian music; American experimentalism; speculative musical philosophy; voice studies, practices of listening, intonation theory, musical ethics, metaphysics, relationality.

courses & syllabuses →

Recordings

Resonant Transmutations
Resonant Transmutations (2025)
Rag Komal Rishabh Asavari
Rag Komal Rishabh Asavari (2020)
Rag Bhimpalasi
Rag Bhimpalasi (2021)
Rag Puriya
Rag Puriya (2023)
Occult Clouds
Occult Clouds (2026)
Blessed Inconstant Moon
Blessed Inconstant Moon (2023)
Misi-Ziibi Song
Misi-Ziibi Song #1 (2023)
Ras
Ras (2025)
Microviolet Accident Party
Microviolet: Accident Party (2022)

Books & Articles

teaching contact & office hours tanpura sound files Canon & Comma Tuning Evaluator (Simple) Canon & Comma Tuning Evaluator (Bayesian) Canon & Comma Playground Canon & Comma — Tuning by Ear

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MORE LINKS Teaching — Courses at the University of Minnesota On Teaching Past Course: Music in American Cultures Past Course: Music of India Tanpura Sound Files Canon & Comma Tuning Evaluator (Simple) Canon & Comma Tuning Evaluator (Bayesian) Canon & Comma Playground Canon & Comma — Tuning by Ear University of Minnesota Faculty Page Experts@Minnesota IAS Faculty Fellow 2023–2024 Google Scholar Academia.edu LinkedIn YouTube Stanford Humanities Center — A Mahfil Drenched in Tears Stanford Humanities Center — Voice Cultures and Ethical Dispositions Williams College — Class of 1960 Music Lecture University of Toronto — Neville Austin Graduate Colloquium Society for Ethnomusicology — University of Minnesota DePauw University — Global Music Experience Georgia Tech Voice+ Research Lab Ways of Voice — Stanford University Library Matthew Rahaim — Wesleyan University Press Ways of Voice — Wesleyan University Press Musicking Bodies — Wesleyan University Press Ways of Voice — HFS Books Musicking Bodies — HFS Books Amazon Author Page Ways of Voice — Goodreads Ways of Voice — Google Books Musicking Bodies — Semantic Scholar ResearchGate Profile Object, Person, Machine, or What — Oxford Academic Imagery, Melody and Gesture — Durham University Repository Review of Musicking Bodies — UCLA Ethnomusicology Review Review of Musicking Bodies — UCLA ECHO Review of Musicking Bodies — Project MUSE Review of Musicking Bodies — Gesture Journal Review of Musicking Bodies — Yearbook for Traditional Music Website Review — Yearbook for Traditional Music, Cambridge Review of Musicking Bodies — Ethnomusicology Forum Article — American Anthropologist (Wiley) Review of Ways of Voice — Asian Music Review of Ways of Voice — Harmonia, University of North Texas Microviolet: Accident Party — Bandcamp Podcast Interview — Paul Metzger Interviews Resonant Transmutations — Create a Stir Resonant Transmutations — Pancouver Blackstone Parks Conservancy Listening to the Mississippi — Park Connection