Spectra and structures: navigating compositional latent spaces in chamber and orchestral music
Sound-timbre-silence provides an apt jumping off point for talking both about my approach to composition and a broader analytical approach to puzzling out contemporary music. Increasingly, I have deployed these three musical elements not in isolation to one another, but as aspects of a larger, multi-dimensional musical shape. This talk will dive into this approach, building on analysis of new music from the UK and abroad to situate this practice within wider trends in contemporary composition, including algorithmic music, spectralism, (meta)modernism and structuralism . Musical discussion will focus on the recent pieces Gravity, for string quartet, Silicon, for orchestra and electronics, and Warp for piano and orchestra.
Date: 24 October 2023, 17:15 (Tuesday, 3rd week, Michaelmas 2023)
Venue: Faculty of Music, St Aldate's OX1 1DB
Venue Details: Committee Room (and online on Zoom)
Speaker: Dr Robert Laidlow (University of Oxford)
Organiser: Professor Jonathan Cross (University of Oxford)
Organiser contact email address: events@music.ox.ac.uk
Part of: Oxford Seminar in Music Theory & Analysis (OSiMTA)
Booking required?: Not required
Booking url: https://music.web.ox.ac.uk/event/the-oxford-seminar-in-music-theory-and-analysis-robert-laidlow-jesus-college-oxford
Booking email: events@music.ox.ac.uk
Cost: Free
Audience: Public
Editor: Georgia Davies