Event overview
John Cousins addresses a secret he'd harboured in the 60s and 70s as he tried to come to terms with 'New Music'.
As a young assistant lecturer in a New Zealand university music department in the late 1960’s/early 1970’s, I harboured a terrible secret; one that I was desperate to conceal. It centered upon my inability to make any sense of the ‘New Music’ emanating from Europe, and sweeping all before it (even to the global antipodes).
For me, both Stockhausen and Boulez seemed to come from another planet! Certainly, their language left me frustratingly unfulfilled. This fact would be my undoing if it ever became known. I would join the discarded heap of reactionaries who, for all the wrong reasons clung to the past (because they were neither musical enough, nor intelligent enough to understand and appreciate the new world now filling the aesthetic horizon.)
What to do! It transpired part of the solution lay in the wild environment of New Zealand’s South-West coast. This illustrated presentation documents a search for creative bedrock that prompted as many dilemmas as it resolved.
Dates & times
| Date | Time | Add to calendar |
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| 4 Dec 2012 | 5:00pm - 6:30pm |
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