Event overview
This lecture will discuss how to look at challenges presented within spaces and make them into important focal points for site specific sound installations.
Visiting Research Fellow in the Sound Practice Research Unit, Goldsmiths, University of London, Maria will discuss her latest large scale sound installation, Sound Bleed @ the Kitchen, sound sculpture Amplified Wind, 2015 and an upcoming project with the Judd Foundation in Marfa, Texas, Wind Instruments for The Block, 2016. All installations used the challenges of environments they were presented in, transforming acoustic nuisances into sound works.
Born in Lima, Peru, Maria Chávez is mainly known as an abstract turntablist, sound artist & DJ. She has worked with Christian Marclay and the Whitney Museum of American Art in NYC as part of Christian Marclay: Festival and has shared the stage with renowned artists such as Pauline Oliveros, Thurston Moore, Merce Cunningham, Phill Niblock and Otomo Yoshihide. Maria recently signed with Software Recordings, a record label founded by Oneohtrix Point Never (Daniel Lopatin) and is due to release her first full length LP in a decade, some time in early 2016.
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The Music Research Series is designed to help postgraduate students advance their research and careers. The events stimulate exchange, hones skills, facilitates the creation of professional networks and helps to consolidate the department’s postgraduate community, all over a glass of wine! Attendance is strongly recommended for all postgraduate students (MA, MMus and PGR) in Music but of course undergraduates, music 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 |
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| 6 Oct 2015 | 5:00pm - 7:00pm |
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