Event overview
This Music Research Series event features Goldsmiths PhD students on their current research
James Wignall: “No Margin: Towards a Stereoscopic Poetics”
Abstract
This practice-based research considers how a poetics of indeterminacy, pioneered by artists such as John Cage and Susan Howe, offered novel strategies for unlocking language’s sonic potential. Proceeding from such work, my research explores how trans-perspectival texts that eschew the strict boundaries of the two-dimensional, lineated page offer points of departure for a radically disjunctive polyvocality.
Joe Gusmano: “Notational Challenges of Quarter-tone Music”
Abstract
When composing music that falls outside of the conventions of 12-not equal temperament, new notational practices must be developed to learn, analyse, perform, and compose this new music. This talk will center on the notation of quartertones, or 24-note equal temperament, and will compare three different quartertone notational systems developed by three different composers, Julián Carrillo, Alois Hába, and Ivan Wyschnegradsky. I will also present some of my own notational experiments and compare some of the merits and disadvantages that come with each system. To make these evaluations, I will also discuss the cultural and institutional contexts from which these systems arise, and in which they might best flourish.
Simon Fox: “Losing Audiences and Finding Galleries: Autoethnography & The Transfiguration of the Artist”
Abstract
It is really a view from the inside of a wider project, picked out to fit with the time constraints of the presentation, although I include a slide which reveals the research questions I am working with to provide a context for the audience.
Fiamma Mozzetta: “The Past in Contemporary Popular Music: Historical Meaning-Making in Creative, Institutional and Commercial Sites”
Abstract
The thesis explores the forms and productive dynamics of “historical consciousness” – that is, the ways that the past is addressed, made or perceived – in contemporary popular music, with chapters focusing on Italy, the UK and Argentina.
Free event, and open to all
Dates & times
| Date | Time | Add to calendar |
|---|---|---|
| 25 May 2023 | 6:00pm - 7:30pm |
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