Event overview
Social Engagement and site specificity: from click languages to flying radios; beat frequencies to heart transplants
The Music Research Series invites researchers from across the country, and from within the department, to present and discuss their work.
John Wynne, the first PhD to emerge from the Goldsmiths EMS (2007), will discuss his diverse sound arts practice over the last two decades in a presentation abundantly illustrated with video and sound.
John is a Canadian/British artist and Emeritus Professor of Sound Art at University of the Arts London. His diverse, research-led practice includes large-scale sound installations in galleries and public spaces, delicate sculptural works, photographs that produce sound, flying radios, and award-winning composed documentaries that traverse the borders between documentation and abstraction. His massive Installation for 300 speakers, Pianola and vacuum cleaner became the first centrepiece of sound art in the Saatchi collection, was the centerpiece of the gallery's 2010 summer show with over half a million visitors, and won John the British Composer Award for Sonic Art.
John has worked with speakers of endangered indigenous languages in Botswana and Canada, and with heart and lung transplant patients in the UK. His work has been exhibited in galleries and museums around the world. 'People I wouldn’t have known', a video installation, is currently showing in the Nobel Prize Museum’s exhibition, 'Life Eternal', in Stockholm.
MUSIC RESEARCH SERIES:
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.
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.
Dates & times
| Date | Time | Add to calendar |
|---|---|---|
| 13 Oct 2022 | 6:00pm - 7:30pm |
Accessibility
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