Event overview
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The Department of Music welcomes American sound experimentalist Matana Roberts to give this afternoon talk.
Matana Roberts is an American sound experimentalist, visual artist, jazz saxophonist and clarinetist, composer and improviser based in New York City, and is giving a talk on her work, as part the Improvisation module, this Thursday 14th February at 2pm in RHB 167.
Matana Roberts has been called “a major talent” (The Wire) and “the spokeswoman for a new, politically conscious and refractory music scene” (Jazzthetik). Her work has been widely and highly praised for its stylistic innovations and narrative power. Noted music critic Peter Margasak has written: "…She is carving out her own aesthetic space, startling in its originality and gripping in its historic and social power."
A dynamic saxophonist, composer, improviser, and mixed media sound conceptualist, Roberts’s acclaimed artistic practice aims to expose and celebrate the mystical roots and intuitive spirit-raising traditions of American creative expression in her artistic output. Her innovative work has forged new conceptual approaches to considering narrativity, history, and political expression within improvisatory structures and beyond.
She is constantly involved in a plethora of projects, consistently shape shifting, crossing genres/mediums as a foundational point of her artistic praxis.
All welcome to attend this free talk, no ticket required.
Dates & times
| Date | Time | Add to calendar |
|---|---|---|
| 14 Feb 2019 | 2:00pm - 4:00pm |
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