The Remixician and the Triaxis
(2024)
author(s): Kristian Isachsen
published in: University of Agder, Faculty of Fine Arts
An artistic research project exploring the art of live remixing through the lens of the music philosophical framework "The Remixician's Triaxis". The project resulted in live studio recordings with multi-camera video of my duo with Alessandra Bossa - Before Without.
In Nono's Footsteps
(last edited: 2025)
author(s): DÁNIEL PÉTER BIRÓ
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The Grieg Academy invites you to an international Symposium on the music of Luigi Nono.
The Italian composer Luigi Nono (1924–1990) is referred to as one of the most central – and radical – composers of the last century. In 2024 Nono would have turned a hundred years old, and at the Grieg Academy in conjunction with the Bergen International Festival, the Holberg Week and the artistic research project Sounding Philosophy, we celebrate the centennial anniversary of Nono’s birth with a symposium and concerts around his work, thinking, philosophy and ongoing relevance in our time.
“Nono expands and enlarges even the most delicate sounds of the ensemble and uses live electronics almost like a magnifying glass to showcase what exists in this microscopic world” conductor and Professor for Composition at the Grieg Academy, Dániel Péter Biró explains. The works on the first program were created at SWR Experimentalstudio, which has worked for more than 50 years with music utilizing live electronics. Throughout the 1980s, Luigi Nono was a regular presence at this important studio, which has also been a workplace for composers such as Karlheinz Stockhausen and Pierre Boulez.
There will be an opening reception for symposium participants on June 1, 2024 at 19:30 in Gunnar Sævigs sal, Grieg Academy.
On June 2, 2024 in Gunnar Sævigs Sal at the Grieg Academy, an international symposium at the Grieg Academy featuring international scholars and composers will discuss the music and thinking of Luigi Nono and its influence on the next generation of composers and musicians.
The Dim Lit Subterranea of the Ancient Mind: the influence of place in ‘inspired’ composition, and the search for 'Ur' sound.
(last edited: 2020)
author(s): Jonathan Day
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This interdisciplinary research progresses aspects of musical composition, musicology and organology though the application of specific recent developments within philosophy and physics.
There are two contingent ‘expeditions’–articulated constellations constructed of a suite of compositions (released as a musical album), exegetical writing and performances.
Atlantic Drifter investigates and evidences interactions developing from the implications of Object Orientated Ontology, (Harman, Bogost et al) for composition. OOO identifies the independent cosmopoesis of non human objects–the manner in which objects-with-agency declare the nature of their ‘world’ through artefacts. It calls the interaction of object worlds ‘encounters’. This research interrogates and transcribes a series of these encounters, experienced in locations internationally. It explores and reveals the agency of place, Genius Loci–air, water, stone, architecture interacting with the composer/philosopher. The research resulted in new music released through Proper Records. A chapter in Music, Myths and Realities (2017) offers a detailed exegesis of the theoretical advances facilitated by the creative work. The works and ideas were shared by invitation as concerts and keynote lectures at prestigious venues internationally.
The second expedition, A Spirit Library, develops from this and examines the ‘encounter’ with the physical presence and agency of sound itself. Schopenhauer’s exposition of music as Will was revisited though the lens of String Theory and aspects of Steven Hawking’s ideas about universal futures. The work explored the sound/human/instrument ‘encounter’, resulting in novel engagements with the cosmopoesis of sound. It allowed an extension into organology, where the generative influence of ‘Ur’ sound was applied to the construction of instruments, offering a novel understanding, shared in a streamed Keynote lecture, available online.
The work was performed by invitation at high status venues and on radio internationally. The music was positively reviewed, including selection as Album of the Year 2019 by Folk Radio UK.
Art and the Philosophies of East & West
(last edited: 2020)
author(s): Christopher Healey
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Art arises either in parallel with or in response to the implicit or explicit philosophies of a culture. Aesthetics and artistic processes have traditionally varied across cultures as a result. For example, the so-called "Western" Classical music tradition which has been influential and widespread throughout much of Europe is distinctly different from the artistic traditions that existed in Japan. Indeed, Japan presents an interesting example for comparison not only because its religo-philosophy is distinct from the Christianity, but because its location resulted in long periods of isolation from other cultures. It is only comparatively recently that the culture of Japan and that of Europe (as disparate as it may be) made meaningful contact.
This essay explores how Japanese art and European art were historically distinct, as well as examining the more recent examples of how this cross-cultural contact has influenced some notable composers.
Chris Dave: A Live Analysis (Dec. 2015)
(last edited: 2019)
author(s): James Wood
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Can you play in time and out of time?
What is the drummer's role in a band setting?
What are the philosophies of performance innate when sampling, when contrafacting, quoting or manipulating other people's work?
How is Chris Dave "the most dangerous drummer on the planet"?
The paper and performance attempt to answer these questions through a stylistic analysis and evaluation of a drum performance of Chris Dave, unpacking his innovative and conceptual reinvention of drum-set performance.
An artistic research project exploring the art of live remixing through the lens of the music philosophical framework "The Remixician's Triaxis". The project resulted in live studio recordings with multi-camera video of my duo with Alessandra Bossa - Before Without.open exposition comments (0)
Can you play in time and out of time? What is the drummer's role in a band setting? What are the philosophies of performance innate when sampling, when contrafacting, quoting or manipulating other people's work? How is Chris Dave "the most dangerous drummer on the planet"? The paper and performance attempt to answer these questions through a stylistic analysis and evaluation of a drum performance of Chris Dave, unpacking his innovative and conceptual reinvention of drum-set performance.open exposition comments (0)