Mira Benjamin

United Kingdom (residence), Canada (citizenship)
research interests: embodied practice, Experimental music, Practice Research, Research methodologies, technique as knowledge, tuning, Microtonality, phenomenotechnics
affiliation: City St. George's, University of London
orcid: 0009-0005-4571-9742
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Canadian violinist, researcher and new-music instigator.

Lecturer in Performing Arts, City St. George's, University of London.

Member of Apartment House. Frequent collaborator with Plus Minus Ensemble and Decibel Ensemble.

PhD (University of Huddersfield); BMus, Artist Diploma (McGill University).

 

research

research expositions (collaborated)

  • Composing Technique, Performing Technique (2021) author(s): Scott McLaughlin, Zubin Kanga, Mira Benjamin published in: Journal for Artistic Research
    Technique as the entanglement of composition and performance as an epistemic object (Knorr Cetina) emergent from contingent materiality. Two pieces by Scott McLaughlin—respectively for Zubin Kanga (piano) and Mira Benjamin (violin)—are discussed as case studies of strategies for entwining the specific embodied techniques of instrumental performance with the material agency (Pickering) of the instrument as a 'material indeterminacy' in which knowledge inheres through practice (Spatz). This exposition situates the artistic research as a novel conceptualisation of 'technique' that treats composition and performance not as separate domains but as an Ingoldian 'meshwork' where virtual structures in the performance technique are amplified through processes of listening and through compositional structures into open-ended local feedback loops.
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