School of Music and Theatre, UCC
Forthcoming Concert, Friday 14 June at 1:30 pm
Venue: Lewis Glucksman Gallery, UCC
Cork-based ensemble The Quiet Club and guest artists join composer David Toop in a lunchtime performance of his FLAT TIME/sounding. Admission is free.
The concert is presented as part of a one-day symposium Performing Thought, Thinking Performance. Further details here:
http://performingthoughtthinkingperformance.wordpress.com
Admission to the symposium is also free but places are limited: please book your place in advance by contacting Maura O'Brien (maura.obrien@ucc.ie)
David Toop is Professor of Audio Culture and Improvisation at University of the Arts London. A composer/musician, author and curator, he has published five books, released eight solo albums and curated exhibitions Sonic Boom at the Hayward Gallery, London, Playing John Cage at Arnolfini, Bristol, and Blow Up at Flat-Time House, London. He is currently writing Into the Maelstrom: Improvised Music and the Pursuit of Freedom. His opera Star-shaped Biscuit was performed as an Aldeburgh Music Faster Than Sound project in September 2012.
Inspired by the ideas of artist John Latham, FLAT TIME/sounding is a 6-page score of textual and visual elements composed for improvisers. The score is not a series of directives to be followed so much as an examination of Latham's theories of time, a collection of analects, aphorisms and images inviting musicians to consider structural and archival aspects of their own improvising language.
Performing Thought, Thinking Performance is co-organised by Dr Róisín O'Gorman (Drama and Theatre Studies) and Dr Christopher Morris (Music) and supported by a CACSSS Cross-School Initiative Award from the School of Music and Theatre, UCC.
Forthcoming Concert, Friday 14 June at 1:30 pm
Venue: Lewis Glucksman Gallery, UCC
Cork-based ensemble The Quiet Club and guest artists join composer David Toop in a lunchtime performance of his FLAT TIME/sounding. Admission is free.
The concert is presented as part of a one-day symposium Performing Thought, Thinking Performance. Further details here:
http://performingthoughtthinkingperformance.wordpress.com
Admission to the symposium is also free but places are limited: please book your place in advance by contacting Maura O'Brien (maura.obrien@ucc.ie)
David Toop is Professor of Audio Culture and Improvisation at University of the Arts London. A composer/musician, author and curator, he has published five books, released eight solo albums and curated exhibitions Sonic Boom at the Hayward Gallery, London, Playing John Cage at Arnolfini, Bristol, and Blow Up at Flat-Time House, London. He is currently writing Into the Maelstrom: Improvised Music and the Pursuit of Freedom. His opera Star-shaped Biscuit was performed as an Aldeburgh Music Faster Than Sound project in September 2012.
Inspired by the ideas of artist John Latham, FLAT TIME/sounding is a 6-page score of textual and visual elements composed for improvisers. The score is not a series of directives to be followed so much as an examination of Latham's theories of time, a collection of analects, aphorisms and images inviting musicians to consider structural and archival aspects of their own improvising language.
Performing Thought, Thinking Performance is co-organised by Dr Róisín O'Gorman (Drama and Theatre Studies) and Dr Christopher Morris (Music) and supported by a CACSSS Cross-School Initiative Award from the School of Music and Theatre, UCC.
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