Dr. Tomie Hahn

Tomie Hahn is a performer and ethnologist whose activities span a wide range of topics including: Japanese traditional performing arts, Monster Truck rallies, issues of identity and creative expression of multiracial individuals, and relationships of technology and culture; interactive dance/movement performance; and gestural control and extended human/computer interface in the performing arts. She is a teacher/performer of shakuhachi (Japanese bamboo flute), and of nihon buyo (Japanese traditional dance) holding the professional stage name, Samie Tachibana. Hahn is also Director of the Center for Deep Listening at Rensselaer, which preserves and promotes the philosophy and work of the late American experimental composer Pauline Oliveros, who was a member of the Arts faculty.