Sound // Technology // Politics //
Very excited to be sharing my research, “Dissensus, Refusal and Participatory Music: Negation and Rupture in Crowd in C,” at CIM’22. The conference’s theme this year is “participation” (very apt for my work!). I’ll be presenting on panel 5A, on Thursday, June 9th. You can find out more information at the conference website here:
On March 14th at 6:00PM, the Peabody Institute’s laptop ensemble will be performing a scored version of politics I. Here, the students in the ensemble will receive instructions on what texts to submit so as to control—concretely—the musical direction of the work. Because movement one of the work is meant to be largely deterministic in its sonification (so that actors within the audience can replicate results they find aesthetically pleasing), it should be an interesting experiment in the expressive capabilities of the system. I am also speaking to the ensemble on Monday about the system and my praxis more generally and then rehearsing/workshopping the work. Should be a ton of fun!
My article “The Politics of Aesthetic Preference in Participatory Music” is out in Cambridge University Press‘s Organised Sound today & it really represents years thinking about participatory concert music experiences as consensus-based spaces. The article reads a political negotiation out of Nattiez and Agawu’s semiological accountings of music as discourse that, when taken alongside the agency handed over to a participating audience by performers/composers, constitutes a Habermasian public. Give it a read when you have a chance and get in touch! http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S1355771822000012
toy_5 is being performed at The Performing Media Festival [PMF~] this February 17th in IU South Bend’s Joshi Performance Hall by IU South Bend’s AVC. If you are in the area or online, check it out!
I’ll be presenting research on participation, political theory, and music technology that I have been working on for the past several years at both the Music and Democracy Study Days: Rethinking Participatory Processes Through Music, and the British Forum for Ethnomusicology and Royal Musical Association Research Students’ Conference in January. The title of the paper is “Dissensus, Refusal and Participatory Music: Negation and Rupture in Crowd in C,” which I have been developing for an invited chapter in a volume on post-politics and the aesthetic imagination. I am really excited for some fruitful talks that develop my thinking on topics that my music is explicitly engaging with.
You can find out more about the conference and the workshop, as well as their schedule of events here:
6 to 8 January, 2022
https://bfe-rma-conference-2022.github.io/
14-15 January 2022
https://musicdemocracystudydays.wordpress.com/
December 11, 2021 — 22:00
Melody Chua, Eric Larrieux, Sascha Jösler and I will join forces for an evening of continuous, experimental music at Kunstraum Walcheturm. The set will be a 45-minutes of continuous electroacoustic music based on compositions by each of us. Interleaving the compositions will be improvised segments that connect each piece to one another. The performance is supported by the Internationale Gesellschaft für Neue Musik, Zürich, Pro Helvetia, and Fondation Nicati-de Luze. Hope to see you there!
Ensemble Decipher will be wrapping up our tour of New York with a performance of works commissioned for the tour in addition to a world premiere by Darian Donovan Thomas. We’ll also have violinist, composer, and technologist, Mari Kimura on for a US and New York premiere of her work KISMET.
Ensemble Decipher is going on a tour of New York! We already have one show down, but will also be performing at Purchase, Oswego, in Albany for the SUNY PACC Prize finals, SUNY Buffalo State, SUNY Fredonia, in Brooklyn at Roulette, and in Manhattan at the Alchemical Studios. We are playing an INSANE amount of rep, and it is always an honor to have such amazing friends willing to play my music so often.
You can find out more here: ensembledecipher.com/sunypacc/
NowNet Arts Conference 2021 Program
The Territory of Telematic and Networked Music: Dreams of the Singularity and Insurmountable Space
12:00PM EST
toy_5 will be presented at ISMIR 2021 by Ensemble Decipher alongside Joey Bohigian’s lullaby for Stepanakert. More details on concert schedule will be posted soon!
