For those who missed it, here’s video from NYCEMF!
Performers: Ensemble Decipher members Eric Lemmon and Niloufar Nourbakhsh
Location: The Sheen Center for Thought & Culture 18 Bleecker St, New York, NY 10012
From Elemental @ NowNet Arts 2022
From Elemental Singularities to Unified Complexities: A Microcosmic Journey will be performed at the 2022 NowNet Arts Conference.
NowNet Arts Conference is an annual event for artists, technologists, researchers, educators, and industry professionals advancing topics in contemporary network arts for the ongoing development of the field.
https://nownetarts.org/nownet-arts-conference-2022
This performance will be particularly special, as the co-Composer of this work, Anne Sophie will also be performing this time around! Look forward to seeing you there!
toy_3 at NYCEMF
toy_3 will be performed live at the New York City Electroacoustic Music Festival later this month! Right now it’s scheduled for a concert on June 21st, but I am trying to get it moved to a concert on the 26th for scheduling accommodations with the other performers.
Hope to see you there!
UPDATE: Both works will be performed on the last concert of the festival (yay!). Niloufar Nourbakhsh and I will be performing my work as well as Daria Semegen’s Vignettes Transfigurations.
The Loreto Theater
18 Bleecker St, New York, NY 10012
Sunday, June 26, 2022
8:00PM-10:00PM
Politics I at Web Audio Conference 2022
Politics I will be performed on the Art Work track at the 7th International Web Audio Conference. I’ll update this post as more details arrive, but you’ll be able to participate in Cannes, France — in person, or online!
For more details on the conference, check it out here. More coming soon as conference schedule is settled!
Presenting at the 2022 Conference on Interdisciplinary Musicology
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:
Politics I @ Peabody Institute
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!
The Politics of Aesthetic Preference out in Organised Sound
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 at 2022 Performing Media Festival
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!
Presenting at BFE/RMA Conference & Music and Democracy Study Days in Jan. 2022
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:
British Forum for Ethnomusicology and Royal Musical Association Research Students’ Conference
6 to 8 January, 2022
https://bfe-rma-conference-2022.github.io/
Music and Democracy Study Days: Rethinking Participatory Processes Through Music
14-15 January 2022
https://musicdemocracystudydays.wordpress.com/
IGNM Zürich Fast Forward Festival — Night II
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!