Alex Kolassa

°1988
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Alexander Kolassa has recently completed a PhD in Composition at the University of Nottingham with Dr Nicholas Sackman and Dr Robert Adlington. His music, an eclectic commentary on a century of musical modernism, has been performed by numerous student ensembles as well as the New London Chamber Ensemble, the Allegri String Quartet and the Orlando Consort. Alexander is active as a teacher and lecturer and is involved in additional research work on music in new and experimental media, philosophy and music, and contemporary/popular representations of “early” music on stage and screen.

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  • Composing for the Memory Dealer: New Paradigms for the Immersive Soundtrack (2015) author(s): Alex Kolassa published in: Journal of Sonic Studies
    The task of producing a score for new experiential types of media and transmedia presents a number of exciting possibilities for the composer. Indeed, the musical experience is a profoundly personal one; deeply held and ideologically informed expectations could risk limiting the role of music in exploratory new pervasive drama pieces to a pseudo-filmic Muzak. Just as the traditional modes of story-telling are rethought and exploded across a new and emergent diegetic plane, the role of music should likewise be radically rethought so as to rewrite its immersive potential. Drawing upon my experience as composer for The Memory Dealer, this article will give critical insight into the collaborative process of both composing and realizing the soundtrack for new emergent, adaptive, and pervasive theatre works. It offers a discussion of my own creative processes and aesthetic concerns as well as an in-depth account of the technological and collaborative realities of this particular project.
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