Event overview
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Composer James Clarke talks on discussing the power of music and abstract visual art.
This talk begins by discussing the power that music (and abstract visual art) can have to be elusive and not allusive, to communicate matters which are beyond the dimension of words and enter into different, and unique, areas of experience. He goes on to discuss the use of repetition, near-repetition, and various types of alteration, as methods to create musical material and musical form. This can be done by taking ideas and working with them, and reworking, sometimes over a period of years, to arrive at a result that one would not, probably, have arrived at otherwise.
James Clarke was born in London in October 1957. He has written over one hundred compositions, for symphony orchestra, solo musicians and for ensembles.
He has led composition courses at the Time of Music Festival in Viitasaari, Finland, where he was featured composer in 2000, and at the Festival junger Künstler Bayreuth in 2000-2003. In 2004 he was a featured composer at the Ars Musica festival in Brussels, where ten works were performed. He was composer-in-residence at Queen's University, Belfast, from 1994-97, and has lectured in Austria, Germany, Holland, Italy, Russia, Sweden, UK, and in Azerbaijan, where he was appointed honorary professor at the Baku Music Academy.
All welcome
Dates & times
| Date | Time | Add to calendar |
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| 27 Oct 2016 | 6:00pm - 7:00pm |
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