Jameel Finch-Martin

Jameel Finch-Martin is a Brooklyn-based poet, musician, and scholar. His poetry, criticism, and interviews can be found in A Common Well Journal, Archway Editions Journal, The Brooklyn Review, and Fort Myers Review. Founding violist of the Renaissance String Quartet, Jameel is a graduate of The Juilliard School, where he completed his pre-college and undergraduate studies with Heidi Castleman, Itzhak Perlman and Joel Krosnick. Under the guidance of Mónica De la Torre and Ben Lerner, he received an MFA in Poetry from Brooklyn College, where he was also an Adjunct Lecturer of English Composition and editor-in-chief/poetry editor of The Brooklyn Review. He is a MA candidate in Performance Studies at NYU Tisch School of the Arts.

Project Title: “unfinished”

Project Description: Ultimately this is just an experimental listening session, aimed at guiding a listener through the experience of listening with my own ears to Schubert’s “unfinished” symphony. I aim not to present a truer picture of Schubert’s symphony, but a rendition that is truer to what I hear in and through it. This project continues to grow out of a phenomenological, music theoretical, and musicological examination of my own listening experience, as well as a sustained consideration of the “unfinished” thematic characterizing the work. It is an un-ending soundtrack to Schubert’s symphony that incorporates the consequences of research that aims to re-examine the structural and harmonic procedures undergirding traditional classical composition, queer phenomenologies, and para-ontological critiques, making audible the extramusical and trans-temporal components of my listening experience. 

Project Inspiration: A phenomenological investigation of Schubert’s “Unfinished” Symphony