Event overview
The Body in Electronic Music Instrument Design
Jenn Kirby will present her body-centred approach to electronic music instrument design. This approach considers how movement, physicality and gesture can help maintain real-time control for the performer and help strengthen audience reception.
Through a demonstration of instruments and performance systems, we will look at some design considerations for performer agency, audience reception and individual body-movement characteristics.
She will also show how movement informs other aspects of her compositional work.
Dr Jenn Kirby is a composer, performer, lecturer and music technologist. Her outputs include contemporary instrumental composition, electroacoustic music, experimental-pop, laptop orchestra performance and solo live electronics. Jenn is very active in the performance of electronic music as a performer and a software developer. She designs performance systems, which make use of games controllers and sensors, to create and perform theatrical live electronic music. Jenn is a lecturer in the Department of Music at Goldsmiths University.
Music Research Lectures are free and all are welcome.
The Music Research Series invites researchers from across the country, and from within the department, to present and discuss their work.
The Series is a space for the development of cutting-edge research in music, and for the training of postgraduate and Early Career Researchers from Goldsmiths and elsewhere.
The sessions bring together scholars, practitioners, and people working in music outside the university. They may include formal papers, panel discussions, conversations, or any other format that suits the research.
Sessions take place at 6pm alternate Thursdays in term 1 and 2.
Attendance is strongly recommended for all postgraduate students (MA, MMus and PGR) in Music, as the events will help hone research skills, facilitate the creation of professional networks and help to consolidate the department’s postgraduate community. Undergraduates, researchers and visitors from across the college and the community are also most welcome to these public lectures.
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Dates & times
| Date | Time | Add to calendar |
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| 28 Oct 2021 | 6:00pm - 7:30pm |
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