Tonight Rob Giampietro will take part in the second of SVA’s D-Crit Readings at KGB Bar, reading “Part Notes,” an essay on Estonian composer Arvo Pärt written for Dot Dot Dot #9. Fellow readers include Dot Dot Dot Editor Stuart Bailey and New Yorker Music Critic Sasha Frere-Jones. Come out and enjoy, it promises to be a great evening.

Details:
SVA MFA in Design Criticism Reading Night
Wednesday, January 23, 7:00–9:00 p.m.
KGB Bar, 85 East 4th Street, www.kgbbar.com
(Entrance is free)

Catch the press release after the jump.

Join the SVA MFA Design Criticism department for another night of critical readings at the KGB Bar in the East Village.

This time our readers will be exploring the spaces where music and design converge.
Sasha Frere Jones will read a lyrical piece about the dance music productions of cellist Arthur Russell, one of the first columns he wrote as pop-music critic at The New Yorker. Stuart Bailey, founder and editor of dot-dot-dot, reads his essay about the Vorticist artist Wyndham Lewis, which uses another essay about Mark E. Smith of The Fall as its narrative counterweight. Principal at the New York design firm Giampietro+Smith, Rob Giampietro ruminates on an imaginary packaging design for a piece of Arvo Pärt’s orchestral music. And Jody Rosen, Slate’s music critic and author of the book White Christmas: The Story of an American Song, discusses the concept of “Deco-Pop.”