Graduate Forum

Tuesdays 5.00pm in the Small Hall Cinema, Richard Hoggart Building, unless stated.

Lectures are free - all welcome (not just for graduates!)
For more information, contact Lisa Busby

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Spring Term 2012

12 January    Centre for Contemporary Music Cultures presents: Brian Ferneyhough
Brian Ferneyhough, who will be receiving his honorary doctorate from Goldsmiths today, is widely recognized as one of today's foremost living composers. Since the mid-1970s, when he first gained widespread international recognition, his music has earned him an enviable reputation as one of the most influential creative personalities and significant musical thinkers on the contemporary scene.
** NB this lecture will take place at 6.15pm in the New Academic Building**

13 January    Department of Politcs, materiali foucaultiani and Department of Music present: Arnold Davidson 'Improvisation as a Way of Life'
This lecture is part of an ongoing collaboration with scholar / composer / musician George Lewis (Columbia University, New York) on practices of improvisation. Using the philosophical perspectives of, among others, Michel Foucault and Pierre Hadot, Davidson will examine the ways in which spiritual exercises of self-transformation and new forms of interactive social intelligibility are expressed and articulated through improvisation. This event is free and open to all, but places are limited, so to be sure of attending, please email martinatazzioli@yahoo.it, or s.seth@gold.ac.uk

17 January    Centre for Russian Music presents: Alex McIntyre 'Russian Schoenberg’  Nikolai Roslavets, and my discoveries in Moscow archives and
Coady Green performs Anton Rubinstein: Piano Etudes on the new Steinway Model D
**NB venue is the Council Chamber, Deptford Town Hall**

24 January    Popular Music Research Unit presents: Geoff Baker, from Royal Holloway, University of London
Geoff works on Latin American popular music, and he has a particular interest in contemporary urban music, above all in Cuba. He is currently based in Buenos Aires, Argentina, where he has begun work on his part of a broader project entitled “Music, Digitization, Mediation: Towards Interdisciplinary Music Studies.” This research programme, based at the Faculty of Music at Oxford University and led by Professor Georgina Born, is examining the changes to music and musical practices afforded by digitization and digital media. He is focusing on the digital cumbia scene in Buenos Aires, in particular the label ZZK Records. He will be seconded to this project until September 2013.

7 February    Centre for Russian Music presents: Alexander Ivashkin 'Who’s Afraid of Socialist Realism: Stalin’s Crossover.' Alexander Ivashkin unveils and discusses classical and romantic idioms in Soviet Mass Culture and Film Music.

21 February    Unit for Sound Practise Research presents: Michael Rüsenberg "from reporter in sound to drone aesthetics".
The Unit for Sound Practice Research presents sound artist Michael Rüsenberg who will give a lecture on his collaborations with Hans-Ulrich Werner.

28 February    PGR student presentations, talks and speakers TBC. Including a special presentation by composer Mark Barden.

6 March    Ethnomusicology presents: Katherine Butler Schofield, Kings College 'Music in Colonial Transition: Indian Perspectives on the "Hindustani Airs" Episode'.

13 March    Dr Ben Winters, Open University 'Moments of Desperation and Peril: Hollywood and Concert Performance'
Ben’s primary area of research is in the area of film music, though he also has research interests in Viennese modernism and orchestral music of the late 19th century.

22 March    Composers Forum Evening Concert: This term our end of term event showcasing the work of our composers and performers is in collaboration with the Composers Forum Concert.
**NB venue is the Council Chamber, Deptford Town Hall and start time 7pm**